Brokerage

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Brokerage \Bro"ker*age\, n.
     1. The business or employment of a broker. --Burke.
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     2. The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for
        transacting business as a broker.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  brokerage
       n 1: 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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "brokerage":
     admission, admission fee, agency, anchorage, barter, bartering,
     boiler room, brokerage house, brokerage office, bucket shop,
     buying and selling, carfare, cellarage, charge, charges,
     cover charge, dealing, demand, dockage, doing business, dues,
     entrance fee, exaction, exactment, exchange, fare, fee,
     give-and-take, hire, horse trading, interchange, jobbing,
     legal bucketing, license fee, merchandising, pilotage, portage,
     retailing, salvage, scot, scot and lot, shot, stockbrokerage,
     stockbroking, stockjobbery, stockjobbing, storage, swapping, toll,
     towage, trade, trading, trafficking, wharfage,
     wheeling and dealing, wholesaling
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  BROKERAGE, contracts. The trade or occupation of a broker; the commissions 
  paid to a broker for his services.