broker:

(also called ‘agent‘; plural: ‘brokers‘; pronunciation: the letters )

a female broker (M) closing a deal between two parties (the men — L & R)

a person whose business or job is to buy or sell goods, houses or land for somebody else, acting as a middle-man, and gets his commission when the deal is complete;

(in Britain) an officer of a court of law whose duty is to sell the things of people who cannot pay their debts to a bank, government or to another person;

a person who buys and sells stocks in stock market (stock broker);

a person who sells insurance policies is an insurance broker;

a person who helps another to get hold of some political power is a power broker;

a person who lends money to those who can keep something valuable with him/her as guarantee and returns the valuable when the money with interest is paid back is called a ‘pawnbroker‘,

stock brokers busy at work

e.g.

Jane was the broker who brokered the sale of Charlie’s house to Susan, and made a good commission on it.

Several large companies engage information brokers who advise them on marketing strategies.

In some societies, marriage brokers, also called matchmakers, who help the parents who wish to get their children married, play an important role in the process of arranged marriages.

For a piece of news about an insurance broker, you may click here, and for some information on what a message broker is, you may click here.
Note: In some places the word ‘broker’ is used with a negative connotation (a bad sense attached, usually in the sense of a ‘pimp’) to refer to a person who cheats others and makes them get into troubles for his/her own advantage by telling them lies or giving them wrong information.

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