All 3 Uses of
broker
in
Leaves of Grass
- no sleepers
must sleep in those beds,
No bargainers' bargains by day—no brokers or speculators—would
they continue?†Chpt 21 *
- The life thou lived'st we know not,
But that thou walk'dst thy years in barter, 'mid the haunts of
brokers,
Nor heroism thine, nor war, nor glory.†Chpt 24
- sundown,
The flowing sea-currents, the little islands, larger adjoining
islands, the heights, the villas,
The countless masts, the white shore-steamers, the lighters, the
ferry-boats, the black sea-steamers well-model'd,
The down-town streets, the jobbers' houses of business, the houses
of business of the ship-merchants and money-brokers, the river-streets,
Immigrants arriving, fifteen or twenty thousand in a week,
The carts hauling goods, the manly race of drivers of horses, the
brown-faced sailors,
The summer air, the bright sun shining, and the sailing clouds aloft,
The winter snows, the sleigh-bells, the broken ice in the river,
passing along up or down with th†Chpt 32
Definition:
someone who facilitates transactions between others (such as a real estate or stock broker)
or:
the process of facilitating an agreement between others
or:
the process of facilitating an agreement between others