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- noun nautical An
intermediary who negotiates betweenshipowners and people wanting tocharter shipping
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Examples
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He worked for the shipbroker Simpson, Spence & Young.
AS SEEN ON TV: A COUPLE OF CUCKOLDS Toby O'B 2010
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Young, a major shipbroker, are worth watching along with the BDI.
Baltic Drying Up as a Gauge Art Patnaude 2010
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The Home Office has refused to disclose why HMP Weare was sold to a shipbroker.
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A ton of U.S. coal is so cheap at about $47 that European utilities will pay $50 to ship it across the Atlantic, according to Galbraith's Ltd., a 263-year-old London shipbroker.
From the WSJ Opinion Archives James Taranto 2007
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Plateau, dating from 1859, recommending him strongly as a shipbroker for collecting émigrants libres, and significantly adding, les nègres ne manquent pas.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Spanish shipbroker, who offered them his polite sympathy.
Brandon of the Engineers Harold Bindloss 1905
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Leading me mysteriously aside, he showed certificates from the officials at Le Plateau, dating from 1859, recommending him strongly as a shipbroker for collecting émigrants libres, and significantly adding, les nègres ne manquent pas.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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It was thus evident that the shipbroker pawned these
A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself. Second Part George M��ller 1851
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I then wrote to the shipbroker at Liverpool, (who as agent had to send it to America, and to whom I had paid his commission and the freight), to make inquiry about the box; but I received no answer.
A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself. Second Part George M��ller 1851
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At last, one morning, on going to a shipbroker, who had promised to let me know of any vessel putting into Plymouth on her way to Cork, he told me that one had just arrived, and would sail again in a few hours.
Paddy Finn William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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