: a broker who executes orders to buy and sell securities and often also acts as a security dealer

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Rodger Riney & family Net worth: $3.9 billion Age: 79 Residence: St. Louis Riney, a University of Missouri graduate, co-founded the now-defunct stockbroker Scottrade in 1980. Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 7 Apr. 2025 Here again, rising energy costs were felt more keenly by wage earners than stockbrokers because buying gasoline and heating their homes constitutes a much larger percentage of their take-home pay. Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025 Fittingly, the stockbroker plans to invest his prize. Brooke Baitinger, Miami Herald, 21 Mar. 2025 The one-time stockbroker most recently taught history and math at local charter and public schools, per the Philly GOP website. 📉 Between the lines: Turnout typically plummets in Philly primaries, with only the most engaged voters coming out to cast a ballot. Mike D'onofrio, Axios, 12 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stockbroker

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First Known Use

circa 1706, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of stockbroker was circa 1706

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“Stockbroker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stockbroker. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.

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stockbroker

noun
: one that handles orders to buy and sell stocks

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