Definition of Ship broker

1. Noun. An agent for the ship owner; obtains cargo and may arrange for its loading or discharge.

Generic synonyms: Agent, Broker, Factor

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ship Broker

ship's biscuit
ship's boat
ship's chandler
ship's company
ship's cousin
ship's galley
ship's officer
ship's papers
ship-breaker
ship-building
ship-buildings
ship-rigged
ship-towed long-range acoustic detection system
ship beriberi
ship biscuit
ship broker (current term)
ship builder
ship canal
ship chandler
ship fever
ship money
ship of the line
ship of war
ship out
ship rat
ship rats
ship route
shipboard
shipboard duty
shipboard soldier

Literary usage of Ship broker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"... wot and damaged, and were surveyed and sold ; four remain in the hands of the ship broker, at Mobile, for account of whom it may concern; two were lost. ..."

2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Generally some special word is prefixed : as bill-broker, cotton-broker, ship-broker, stock-broker, etc. properly ; but now anyone of the ваш* calling as ..."

3. Commercial Precedents Selected from the Column of Replies and Decisions of by Charles Putzel, H. A. Bähr (1881)
"After making this settlement the captain told the ship-broker, ... After the vessel had been discharged three or four days, the ship-broker called on the ..."

4. Commercial Precedents: Selected from the Column of Replies and Decisions of by Charles Putzel, H. A. Bähr (1881)
"After making this settlement the captain told the ship-broker, ... After the vessel had been discharged three or four days, the ship-broker called on the ..."

5. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted, to by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"Merchant " is a good description, qua Kills of Sale Acts, of a person who is a Coal Merchant and ship broker ..."

6. Ocean Steamship Traffic Management by Grover Gerhardt Huebner (1920)
"ship brokerAGE CHARGES AND PROFITS The usual compensation of a ship broker for chartering a vessel on a voyage charter is a commission in the form of a ..."

7. Ocean Steamship Traffic Management by Grover Gerhardt Huebner (1920)
"ship brokerAGE CHARGES AND PROFITS The usual compensation of a ship broker for chartering a vessel on a voyage charter is a commission in the form of a ..."

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