All 7 Uses of
broker
in
The Westing Game
- Turtle returned to her calculations, multiplying numbers of shares times price, adding a broker's commission, trying to total the sums to the ten thousand dollars they had to spend.
p. 43.2broker = person paid to facilitate the buying or selling of stock
- broker's commission = +90
p. 50.4
- When they had finally reached a snowbound broker, Flora Baumbach was so nervous she dropped the telephone.
p. 54.5
- Then, after two hours of watching mysterious symbols move across the lighted panel high on the wall of the broker's office, her eyes began to cross.
p. 80.0
- Flora Baumbach, her strained eyes shielded by dark glasses, drove Turtle to school on her way to the broker's office and picked her up in the late afternoon with a sheet of prices copied from the moving tape.
p. 88.3
- As soon as you get to the broker's office I want you to sell AMO, sell SEA, sell MT, and put all the money into WPP.
p. 103.6 *
- Doug followed the delivery boy to another bus, ran four steep miles to a stockbroker's office (how is it that all roads go uphill?), from the broker to the high school, from the high school (downhill, at last) back to Sunset Towers.
p. 107.0
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