different between broker vs negotiate

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b???k?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?o?k?/
• Rhymes: -??k?(?)

Etymology 1

From broke +? -er.

Adjective

broker

1. comparative form of broke: more broke

Etymology 2

From Middle English broker, brokour, brocour, from Anglo-Norman brocour (“small trader”) (compare also abroker (“to act as a broker”)), from Old Dutch *brokere (“one who determines the usages of trade, manager”), from broke, bruyck, breuck (“use, usage, trade”), from Proto-West Germanic *br?k? (“use, custom”), from Proto-Germanic *br?kiz (“use, custom”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ruHg- (“to use, enjoy”), equivalent to brook +? -er.

Noun

broker (plural brokers)

1. A mediator between a buyer and seller.
2. A stockbroker.
3. A mediator in general, one who liaises between two or more parties to attempt to achieve an outcome of some kind.
   • 2014, Spencer C. Tucker, World War I: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection, ?ISBN, page 244

     The peace plan was representative of Benedict's inability to appear as a neutral broker of peace

4. (computing) An agent involved in the exchange of messages or transactions.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• brokage
• brokerage

Translations

Verb

broker (third-person singular simple present brokers, present participle brokering, simple past and past participle brokered)

1. (intransitive) To act as a broker; to mediate in a sale or transaction.
2. (transitive) To act as a broker in; to arrange or negotiate.

Translations

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English broker.

Noun

broker m (invariable)

1. broker (commercial mediator)

Derived terms

• brokeraggio

Polish

Etymology

From English broker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?br?.k?r/

Noun

broker m pers

1. (finance) stockbroker

   Synonym: makler

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) brokerski

Further reading

• broker in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• broker in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Noun

broker m (plural brokers)

1. Alternative spelling of bróker

English

Alternative forms

• negociate (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin negotiatus, past participle of negotiari (“to carry on business”), from negotium (“business”) (Eng. usg. 1599), from nec (“not”) + otium (“leisure, ease, inactivity”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /n?????.?i.e?t/, /n???o?.?i.e?t/, /n?????.si.e?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /n???o?.?i.e?t/, /n???o?.?i.e?t/

Verb

negotiate (third-person singular simple present negotiates, present participle negotiating, simple past and past participle negotiated)

1. (intransitive) To confer with others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement.
   • 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., to the eight fellow clergymen who opposed the civil rights action, "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait

     "You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue."

2. (transitive) To arrange or settle something by mutual agreement.

3. (transitive) To succeed in coping with, or getting over something.

4. (transitive) To transfer to another person with all the rights of the original holder; to pass, as a bill.
5. (obsolete) To transact business; to carry on trade.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Hammond to this entry?)

6. (obsolete) To intrigue; to scheme.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

Derived terms

Related terms

• otiose

Translations

Further reading

• negotiate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• negotiate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Participle

neg?ti?te

1. vocative masculine singular of neg?ti?tus