ship broker

1. 1.

   an agent for the ship owner; obtains cargo and may arrange for its loading or discharge

   Broaderagent

Questions about ship broker

What does ship broker mean?

ship broker means "an agent for the ship owner; obtains cargo and may arrange for its loading or discharge".

Is ship broker a common word?

ship broker 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.