broker-dealer

1. 1.

   a financial specialist who trades for his own account and so acts both as a broker and principal

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Questions about broker-dealer

What does broker-dealer mean?

broker-dealer means "a financial specialist who trades for his own account and so acts both as a broker and principal".

How many syllables are in broker-dealer?

broker-dealer has 5 syllables and divides as bro-ker--de-a-ler under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is broker-dealer a common word?

broker-dealer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.