All 19 Uses of
broker
in
Babbitt
- He searched for an attitude, but neither as a Republican, a Presbyterian, an Elk, nor a real-estate broker did he have any doctrine about preacher-mayors laid down for him, so he grunted and went on.†
Chpt 2
- For weeks together he noticed nothing but clients and the vexing To Rent signs of rival brokers.†
Chpt 3 *
- He sent Mat Penniman to the recorder's office to dig out the names of the owners of houses which were displaying For Rent signs of other brokers; he talked to a man who desired to lease a store-building for a pool-room; he ran over the list of home-leases which were about to expire; he sent Thomas Bywaters, a street-car conductor who played at real estate in spare time, to call on side-street "prospects" who were unworthy the strategies of Stanley Graff.†
Chpt 4
- Babbitt's virtues as a real-estate broker—as the servant of society in the department of finding homes for families and shops for distributors of food—were steadiness and diligence.†
Chpt 4
- True, it was a good advertisement at Boosters' Club lunches, and all the varieties of Annual Banquets to which Good Fellows were invited, to speak sonorously of Unselfish Public Service, the Broker's Obligation to Keep Inviolate the Trust of His Clients, and a thing called Ethics, whose nature was confusing but if you had it you were a High-class Realtor and if you hadn't you were a shyster, a piker, and a fly-by-night.†
Chpt 4
- Babbitt spoke well—and often—at these orgies of commercial righteousness about the "realtor's function as a seer of the future development of the community, and as a prophetic engineer clearing the pathway for inevitable changes"—which meant that a real-estate broker could make money by guessing which way the town would grow.†
Chpt 4
- Operators and buyers prefer that brokers should not be in competition with them as operators and buyers themselves, but attend to their clients' interests only.†
Chpt 4
- Now, Purdy seemed ready to buy, and his delay was going to cost him ten thousand extra dollars—the reward paid by the community to Mr. Conrad Lyte for the virtue of employing a broker who had Vision and who understood Talking Points, Strategic Values, Key Situations, Underappraisals, and the Psychology of Salesmanship.†
Chpt 4
- The cautions of the broker were wiped from his face, and his voice was cruel: "I've had enough of all this damn nonsense!†
Chpt 10
- IT was by accident that Babbitt had his opportunity to address the S. A. R. E. B. The S. A. R. E. B., as its members called it, with the universal passion for mysterious and important-sounding initials, was the State Association of Real Estate Boards; the organization of brokers and operators.†
Chpt 13
- Warren Whitby, the broker, who had a gift of verse for banquets and birthdays, had added to Frink's City Song a special verse for the realtors' convention: Oh, here we come, The fellows from Zenith, the Zip Citee.†
Chpt 13
- Get out bonds to finance it?" asked a Sparta broker.†
Chpt 13
- It was composed of the Zenith brokers, dressed as cowpunchers, bareback riders, Japanese jugglers.†
Chpt 13
- A broker from Minnemagantic said, "Monarch is a lot sportier than Zenith.†
Chpt 13
- They did not wish Babbitt and Thompson to have any share in the deal except as brokers.†
Chpt 19
- "Ethics of the business-broker ought to strictly represent his principles and not get in on the buying," he said to Thompson.†
Chpt 19
- I'm Mr. Babbitt, the real-estate broker!"†
Chpt 24
- Now here's a lady who knows the right broker to come to, Orvy!"†
Chpt 29
- Of course Jake is a rock-ribbed old die-hard, and he probably advised the Traction fellows to get some other broker.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(broker as in: she is a broker) someone who facilitates transactions between others (such as a real estate or stock broker)
or:
the process of facilitating an agreement between others