ship broker
- noun
- /ʃɪp ˈbroʊkər/
- Specialized
:
agente marítimo
- Many ship brokers work to connect clients with the best charter options for their freight needs.
Examples
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The ship broker arranged a deal between the owner and a company seeking to transport their goods across the ocean.
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(n52) Barnard represented the ship brokers, and he presented an extensive review of events prior to March 15.
Academic text (2008) -
When he began negotiations with the Egyptian authorities to purchase it, a group of ship brokers immediately entered into the negotiations, intending to use their inside connections to get the vessel at a bargain price and then sell it to Gorringe, or, as bidding for the ship went higher and higher, force him to pay them to drop out.
Academic text (2002) -
The first indication of trouble surfaced months earlier when the city's ship brokers, represented by James M. Barnard, received complaints from the railroads and the shippers that the rates in Savannah were much higher than in neighboring ports.
Academic text (2008) -
As a ship broker, she negotiated competitive rates for companies looking to hire vessels for their cargo shipments.
Synonyms
243
3.5
A person who buys and sells things for other people for a fee
60
5.8
A company that helps people buy and sell things like stocks for a fee
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an agent who arranges hiring or chartering of ships' is directly and compositionally derived from 'ship' (a vessel) + 'broker' (an agent who arranges transactions). This noun–noun compound simply specifies the domain of the broker and follows a common cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it.
Etymology
Ship broker comes from the image of a person at a busy port who acts as a broker, running between ship owners and people with cargo to make deals. So a ship broker is someone who 'finds and books' ships for others.