brokerage.

The business or service of arranging transactions between buyers, sellers or other parties, usually for a fee.

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Words that belong together

• brokerage service
• brokerage fee

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The brokerage service connected buyers and sellers without owning the goods itself.

The brokerage fee was disclosed separately from the price of the asset.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Usually uncountable for the service or fees; singular brokerage, plural brokerages for firms. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: economic explanation, resource analysis, incentive analysis, comparison. Disciplines: economics, business, social science. Commonness: moderately common.