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Definition of Brokery
1. n. The business of a broker.
Definition of Brokery
1. Noun. (obsolete) The business of a broker. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brokery
1. a broker's business [n BROKERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brokery
Literary usage of Brokery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Who's who in America by Marquis Who's Who, Inc (1903)
"(first philanthropic pawn-brokery) ; chmn. Tenement House Com., State of NY,
1900; trustee .Vet. Art Museum since 1883; mgr. in Presby'n Hosp.; près. ..."
2. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb by Maurice Henry Hewlett, Laurence Binyon, Edward James Hewlett, William Randolph Hearst, Jonathan Swift, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Edward Verrall Lucas, Frederick Madison Smith, Mariano Tomás (1905)
"... cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery, I fill'd the jails
with bankrupts in a year, And with young orphans planted hospitals, ..."
3. Thesaurus of English words and phrases by Peter Mark Roget (1883)
"... shopping ; commercial enterprise, speculation, jobbing, stock-jobbing, agiotage,
brokery. a Rowland for an Oliver ; quid pro quo ; corn-mutation, ..."
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