25 Verbs to Use for the Word brokers

"It would have stopped my trade," said one of them, "to have asked the broker how he came by the person he was offering me for sale.

We will meet at your office to-morrow and bring our brokers.

Then said he unto them, "Let us send our broker into the board, so that he shall act like an insane man, and can we be held for an insane man's purchases?"

Who will lend me even a hundred louis on this house that I can not sell?" While he was in this quandary, he met his Jewish broker.

He has a small private income, apart from his salary, which I know he does not spend, since I have occasionally employed my broker to invest his savings.

I did try to pawn 'em, too, thinkin' we could get 'em back again when things came round; but, I can assure yo, I couldn't find a broker anywhere that would tak' 'em in."

It's only a spoiling of the Egyptians to fleece a broker.

The fall in the value of many stocks and securities held by the banks forces many brokers and speculators to convert their resources into ready money.

" "How's that?" "Why I got a broker to buy me fifty shares on a margin of one per cent.

Jadwin sprang forward, gripping the broker by the shoulder.

He hath salves for every sore, to hide them, not to heal them; complexion for every face; sin hath not any more artificial broker or more impudent bawd.

Any original subscriber who wants to turn his bonds into money can do so by instructing his broker to sell them; anyone who wants to do so can acquire a holding in them by a purchase.

But on toward noon, when things looked about right, we jumped twenty brokers into the pit, all selling at once and offering in any sized lots for which they could find takers.

She won't leave her stock-broker, eh?

Since then Mabel had returned to New York and married a stock-broker; and Undine's first steps in social enlightenment dated from the day when she had met Mrs. Harry Lipscomb, and been again taken under her wing.

" There may have been something in that, or it may be barely possible that Ford now and then mixed his men a little, and pointed out brokers as "gamblers," and busy attorneys as probable pickpockets.

He asked me if I could recommend him a broker here in Edinburgh who was thoroughly well acquainted with the very best class of American investments, and I at once recommended Mr. John Paley.

"I had a mighty queer surprise this morning," remarked a local stock broker.

Think it through: Suppose a man like Barry Conant or myself, or any active commission broker, begins the execution of a large order for a client, one, say, who has advance information of a receivership, a fire at a mine, the death of a President, a declaration of war, or any of the hundred and one items of information that must be acted upon instantly, where a delay of a minute would ruin the broker, or his house, or its clients.

Others who styled themselves brokers, would only trust their money upon goods: that I might, therefore, try every art of expensive folly, I took a house and furnished it.

Shall we disguss or take a vote?" "Let's take a smoke!" amended a real-estate broker.

Is he to be burdened with new expenses lest he should hoard up the publick money, stop the circulation of coin, and turn broker or usurer with twopence a-day? I have been so long acquainted, sir, with the soldier's character, that I will adventure to secure him from the charge of avarice, and to promise that whatever he shall possess not necessary to life, he will enjoy to the advantage of his landlord.

The broker will as naturally appreciate the broker, as the dog appreciates the dog, or the wolf the wolf.

The origin of this word is contested; some derive it from the French broyer, "to grind;" others from brocader, to cavil or riggle; others deduce broker from a trader broken, and that from the Saxon broc, "misfortune," which is often the true reason of a man's breaking.

Firm in his new purpose, he dismissed the broker and sent for his counsellor.

25 Verbs to Use for the Word  brokers