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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
brokerage
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
▪ J., that also owns two other large real estate brokerage firms.
■ NOUN
discount
▪ You can also buys shares of the fund through discount brokerage Charles Schwab Corp. for a small fee.
▪ Co. has grown rapidly since its early years as a discount brokerage house.
firm
▪ Because she has a substantial portfolio, she should be able to seek this out at any full-service brokerage firm.
▪ Officials at all three brokerage firms say the charge applies to a relatively few clients.
▪ With leading brokerage firms possessing large customer bases such as Goldman, Sachs&038;.
▪ Also, many foreign-exchange brokerage firms closed at noon.
▪ The authority said the banks and brokerage firms eliminated or are resolving the problems.
▪ No banks or brokerage firms failed.
▪ Adler Coleman, a clearing company for about 40 brokerage firms, files for bankruptcy protection.
house
▪ There, a brokerage house, acting as underwriter, legitimately acquired inside information from one of its clients.
▪ Of course, there is intense competition among the London brokerage houses to signal their bids as fast as possible.
▪ Shares of many other financial companies, such as brokerage houses, also slid.
▪ In the fallout, hundreds of investors sued brokerage houses and traders for not warning clients about their investment peril.
▪ Co., a small Boston brokerage house, sometimes uses sharp elbows to survive.
▪ Co. has grown rapidly since its early years as a discount brokerage house.
▪ Many brokerage house shares were also lower.
■ VERB
bank
▪ There is a growing push in the banking and brokerage community to develop systems that support advanced services.
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▪ Another aspect of the brokerage function is the support for data management and traditional transaction services.
▪ Banks gave up 0. 74 percent as a group while brokerages fell 0. 84.
▪ But it would not be new to the brokerage or mutual fund businesses.
▪ Each brokerage Jongert is covered by a six-month shipyard guarantee and is backed by our comprehensive and reliable after sales service.
▪ Even insider-trading accusations against brokerages and managers of investment funds haven't hurt stocks' appeal.
▪ More advanced services include stock and mutual fund brokerage or trading services, currency trading, and credit or debit card management.
▪ Think, for example, of the dilemma that Dave faced when he replaced George at the low-performing brokerage.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brokerage

Brokerage \Bro"ker*age\, n.

  1. The business or employment of a broker.
    --Burke.

  2. The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
brokerage

mid-15c., "a broker's trade," from broker (n.) + -age. Also, in 17c., "a pimp's trade."

Wiktionary
brokerage

n. 1 A business, firm, or company whose business is to act as a broker (e.g, stockbroker). 2 The commission paid to a broker.

WordNet
brokerage

  1. n. a stock broker's business; charges a fee to act as intermediary between buyer and seller [syn: brokerage firm, securities firm]

  2. the business of a broker; charges a fee to arrange a contract between two parties

  3. place where a broker conducts his business [syn: brokerage house]

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Usage examples of "brokerage".

The funds mysteriously absent from the brokerage account about which Guy and Hailey had fought.

I remembered the look on his face when he learned that the brokerage account was empty.

Half an hour later he came out of a subway station in the financial district and entered a brokerage office.

When Elizabeth majored in accounting and had a chance to buy into a new insurance brokerage firm soon after graduation, he refused to help.

According to the newspaper, the police defined the robber as the same masked man who had entered a brokerage office two days ago and forced the owner to hand over a batch of securities that were in his desk drawer.

He gathered bathroom stuff together and remembered his briefcase and the file box where he kept his credit card information, the brokerage agreement, bank statements, and his passport.

He endorsed the brokerage check for deposit and mailed it to his bank.

Instead of approaching investment bankers who were working on deals in secret and knew about them before the rest of the market, Oliver had recruited four back-office people who worked in compliance areas of brokerage houses and investment banking firms on Wall Street.

The Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal and state authorities take a dim view of brokerage firms that trade in the shares of companies for whom they are arranging financial transactions in the weeks before those transactions are announced.

Each time he identified the pattern he was searching for, he pulled the buy order a yellow piece of paper on which was the name of the company in whose shares Sagamore was investing, the number of shares purchased, the date purchased, the brokerage house with which the trade was executed, and the portfolio man ager who had ordered the trade and walked down the hall to the office equipment station and made a photo copy.

She named the Philadelphia office of a nationally known brokerage firm.

Down the table sat our nominees, the two brokerage men, a banker and an accountant.

Why should Neil live in a place like this just because he had that nice soft brokerage job, and Fafnir be crammed into that grubby downtown apartment, even if it was free?

No legitimate brokerage firm could make a better showing than we have!

He would lose the linoleum shop, and they would put him to work in some menial office job at the mill, or in the brokerage, or perhaps even in the shipping office of one of their many small businesses.