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broker
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broker as in:  she is a broker

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  • I needed money—Dad would have said I was broker than the Ten Commandments—so I went to get my old job back at Stokes.†  (source)
  • The Americans were worried that their ally General Musharraf was too unpopular in Pakistan to be effective against the Taliban, so they had helped broker an unlikely power-sharing deal.†  (source)
  • "I know the Seymours love the opera," explained Richard in his thick-money accent, like a Manhattan stock broker describing an investment option.†  (source)
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  • I couldn't sit at the rich kids' table because I don't have a cell phone or a broker.†  (source)
  • He had hoped only a handful of Vatican power brokers knew of Opus Dei's impending annulment.†  (source)
  • "With the war getting worse," says the Admiral, "we brokered a peace by bringing both sides to the table.†  (source)
    brokered = facilitated an agreement between others
  • By 1940 he had mastered the business and was running the entire operation, brokering the deals and managing a staff of thirty.†  (source)
    brokering = facilitating an agreement between others
  • "I know," Sammy says to broker the peace.†  (source)
  • We'd been expending heroic effort searching for an apartment, a frustrating process which we'd borne in mostly good humor although the bare spaces and empty rooms haunted with other people's abandoned lives kicked up (for me) a lot of ugly echoes from childhood, moving boxes and kitchen smells and shadowed bedrooms with the life gone out of them all but more than this, pulsing throughout, a sort of ominous mechanical hum audible (apparently) only to me, heavily-breathing apprehensions which the voices of the brokers, ringing cheerfully against the polished surfaces as they walked around switching on the lights and pointing out the stainless-steel appliances, did little to dispel.†  (source)
  • Jane's talked to the police, brokered a deal.†  (source)
    brokered = facilitated an agreement between others
  • I can see Mai brokering the deal.†  (source)
    brokering = facilitating an agreement between others
  • "I'm a tax lawyer," said Joe, "and a real estate broker and a piano player.†  (source)
  • Sometimes in the evening I would go out to him and find him in the garden near the oratory, sitting absolutely composed on a stone bench there, and I'd tell him my troubles, the difficulties I had with the slaves, how I distrusted the overseer or the weather or my brokers ....all the problems that made up the length and breadth of my existence.†  (source)
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