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Definition of Brokeries
1. brokery [n] - See also: brokery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brokeries
Literary usage of Brokeries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by George Woodyatt Hastings, Andrew Edgar, Charles Wager Ryalls, Edwin Pears (1862)
"These remarks »re especially applicable to low brokeries. The Superintendent of
Police in Dumfries says ... These pawnshops and brokeries are made the ..."
2. The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal (1872)
"... or to show how the opening of title and office brokeries impair the credit
and saps the influence of the government. And yet this entire traffic has a ..."
3. The Sins of Society: Words Spoken by Father Bernard Vaughan, of the Society by Bernard Vaughan (1907)
"... in fact, they became untrue— " You know there are some things so much better
left unsaid; there are shortcomings" (marriage brokeries, ..."
4. Hanlin Papers: Or, Essays on the Intellectual Life of the Chinese by William Alexander Parsons Martin (1880)
"... or to show how the opening of title-and-office brokeries lowers the credit
and saps the influence of the government. And yet this entire traffic has a ..."
5. The Chinese: Their Education, Philosophy, and Letters by William Alexander Parsons Martin (1881)
"... or to show how the opening of title and office brokeries lowers the credit
and saps the influence of the government. And yet this entire traffic has a ..."
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