Broke vs. Broker — What's the Difference?

Past tense of break.

A broker is a person or firm who arranges transactions between a buyer and a seller for a commission when the deal is executed. A broker who also acts as a seller or as a buyer becomes a principal party to the deal.

(Nonstandard)A past participle of break.

One that acts as an agent for others, as in negotiating contracts, purchases, or sales in return for a fee or commission.

Bankrupt.

A stockbroker.

Lacking funds

A power broker.

Inflection of break

To arrange or manage as a broker

To act as a broker; to transact business for another; broker#Verb.

A mediator between a buyer and seller.

(obsolete) To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.

A stockbroker.

(informal) Financially ruined, bankrupt.

A mediator in general, one who liaises between two or more parties to attempt to achieve an outcome of some kind.

(informal) Without any money, penniless.

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

Broken.

(intransitive) To act as a broker; to mediate in a sale or transaction.

(nautical) Demoted, deprived of a commission.

(transitive) To act as a broker in; to arrange or negotiate.

(slang) Broke off, rich, wealthy

One who transacts business for another; an agent.

(papermaking) Paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.

An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own.

(obsolete) A fragment, remains, a piece broken off.

A dealer in money, notes, bills of exchange, etc.

To transact business for another.

A dealer in secondhand goods.

To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.

A pimp or procurer.

Lacking funds;

A businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission

Act as a broker