stockbroker
noun
stock·bro·ker
ˈstäk-ˌbrō-kər 
: a broker who executes orders to buy and sell securities and often also acts as a security dealer
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Delon was perfectly cast as a wheeler-dealer stockbroker who becomes involved with Vitti’s character but is unwilling and unable to satisfy her emotional needs.
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Carmel Dagan, Variety, 18 Aug. 2024
Born in Baltimore and raised in Roland Park on Harvest Road, Richard Emory Gatchell was the son of George Gordon Gatchell, a stockbroker, and Elizabeth Kortwright Monroe Emory, a homemaker.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 21 Mar. 2024
Shareholders in Hargreaves Lansdown — the U.K.’s biggest stockbroker — will get 1,110 British pence per share and a dividend of 30 pence per share under the deal, the company said.
—Katrina Bishop, CNBC, 9 Aug. 2024
The pair became the first female stockbrokers on Wall Street and used their profits to start Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly, the first weekly newspaper edited by women in 1870.
—Allison Lange / Made By History, TIME, 6 Aug. 2024
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Carmel Dagan, Variety, 18 Aug. 2024
Born in Baltimore and raised in Roland Park on Harvest Road, Richard Emory Gatchell was the son of George Gordon Gatchell, a stockbroker, and Elizabeth Kortwright Monroe Emory, a homemaker.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 21 Mar. 2024
Shareholders in Hargreaves Lansdown — the U.K.’s biggest stockbroker — will get 1,110 British pence per share and a dividend of 30 pence per share under the deal, the company said.
—Katrina Bishop, CNBC, 9 Aug. 2024
The pair became the first female stockbrokers on Wall Street and used their profits to start Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly, the first weekly newspaper edited by women in 1870.
—Allison Lange / Made By History, TIME, 6 Aug. 2024
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stockbroker
noun
stock·bro·ker
ˈstäk-ˌbrō-kər
: one that handles orders to buy and sell stocks
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