Word Meanings - BROKERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The business of a broker. And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe.

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• BROKERY
  The business of a broker. And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe.
• COZENAGE
  The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud. Shak.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• EXTORTIONER
  , One who practices extortion.
• EXTORT
  To get by the offense of extortion. See Extortion, 2. (more info) 1. To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away ; to tear away; to wring
• BROKERAGE
  1. The business or employment of a broker. Burke. 2. The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker.
• TRICKSTER
  One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
• EXTORTIONARY
  Extortionate.
• EXTORTER
  One who practices extortion.
• BUSINESSLIKE
  In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
• BELONG
  attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. Note: 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. 2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place
• BROKERLY
  Mean; servile. B. Jonson.
• COZENER
  One who cheats or defrauds.
• FORFEITABLE
  Liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture. For the future, uses shall be subject to the statutes of mortmain, and forfeitable, like the lands themselves. Blackstone.
• BELONGING
  1. That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. "Thyself and thy belongings." Shak. 2. That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance. 3. Family; relations; household.
• FORFEIT
  1. To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress. 2. To fail to keep an obligation. I will have the heart of him if he forfeit. Shak.
• FORFEITURE
  1. The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act. Under pain of foreiture of the said goods. Hakluyt. 2. That which is forfeited; a penalty;
• COZEN
  To cheat; to defrand; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way. He had cozened the world by fine phrases. Macualay. Children may be cozened into a knowledge of the letters. Locke. Goring loved no man so well but that he
• TRICKSY
  Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. "My tricksy spirit!" Shak. he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state wisdom. Coleridge.
• BROKER
  An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally
• SHAREBROKER
  A broker who deals in railway or other shares and securities.
• PAWNBROKER
  One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.