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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George Millay, a former stockbroker and successful restaurateur, was looking for a new challenge and found just that after talking to a customer, Kenny Norris, curator of fish and mammals at Marineland.
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Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2024
Unable to find another job in coaching, Dambrot became a stockbroker and started running a youth basketball clinic at a Jewish community center in Akron.
—Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
Scott has long been a fixture of the 14-time Grammy winner’s touring enterprise, with fans reporting for years that the stockbroker enjoys passing out guitar picks to audience members at shows.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 26 Mar. 2024
The Cavill brothers were born to Colin Cavill, a stockbroker, and Marianne Dalgliesh, a secretary, and raised on the island of Jersey.
—Emma Kershaw, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2023
In 1992, Blum, who made his living as a stockbroker, decided to run for Congress as a Republican in a Texas district carved out to ensure Black representation.
—Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
While Dimon was an undergraduate at Tufts University, banker and family friend Sandy Weill hired him to spend his summer working at the investment bank Shearson—where Dimon’s father and grandfather both worked as stockbrokers.
—Byjasmine Li, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2024
That included moving in with, and later marrying, first husband Walker Channing Jr., stockbroker scion of a Boston Brahmin family.
—Sue Reilly, Peoplemag, 13 Feb. 2024
One prospective student wanted help investigating a stockbroker.
—By Ana Veciana-Suarez, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2024
Unable to find another job in coaching, Dambrot became a stockbroker and started running a youth basketball clinic at a Jewish community center in Akron.
—Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
Scott has long been a fixture of the 14-time Grammy winner’s touring enterprise, with fans reporting for years that the stockbroker enjoys passing out guitar picks to audience members at shows.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 26 Mar. 2024
The Cavill brothers were born to Colin Cavill, a stockbroker, and Marianne Dalgliesh, a secretary, and raised on the island of Jersey.
—Emma Kershaw, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2023
In 1992, Blum, who made his living as a stockbroker, decided to run for Congress as a Republican in a Texas district carved out to ensure Black representation.
—Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
While Dimon was an undergraduate at Tufts University, banker and family friend Sandy Weill hired him to spend his summer working at the investment bank Shearson—where Dimon’s father and grandfather both worked as stockbrokers.
—Byjasmine Li, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2024
That included moving in with, and later marrying, first husband Walker Channing Jr., stockbroker scion of a Boston Brahmin family.
—Sue Reilly, Peoplemag, 13 Feb. 2024
One prospective student wanted help investigating a stockbroker.
—By Ana Veciana-Suarez, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
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First Known Use
circa 1706, in the meaning defined above
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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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