[STOCK sb.1] A broker who, for a commission, buys and sells stocks on behalf of clients.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), s.v. Broker, Stock-Brokers are such as buy and sell Shares in the joynt Stocks of a Company, or Corporation, for any Person that shall desire them.
1746. W. Thompson, R. N. Adv. (1757), 46. Usurers, Stock-Brokers, and Merchants.
1834. Marryat, P. Simple, i. My father had told me that Mr. Handycock was his stockbroker.
1867. Trollope, Chron. Barset, I. xxxvii. 320. A man may be a stockbroker though he never sells any stock.
So Stock-brokerage, -brokery, the business of a stock-broker; Stock-broking vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1792. A. Young, Trav. France, 513. The banking, money-changing, and stock-broking writers, with Necker at their head.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. III. viii. From the dens of Stock-brokerage.
1869. W. S. Gilbert, Bab Ball., Disillusioned, 29. With vulgar, coarse, stock-broking face.
1874. M. Collins, Transmigr., III. viii. 127. I was specially anxious to transfer stockbrokery to Algy.
1885. Law Rep., 15 Q. B. Div. 116. An account in respect of stockbroking transactions carried on between them.
1896. Daily News, 9 Nov., 3/4. He was now learning stockbroking in the city.
