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A stockbroking firm which takes small orders from clients and takes them on its own account rather than actually transmitting them to the market. Prevalent in the US 1870s to 1920s; often set up as shop-fronts in the 1920s.

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  • (noun) A stockbroking firm which takes small orders from clients and takes them on its own account rather than actually transmitting them to the market. Prevalent in the US 1870s to 1920s; often set up as shop-fronts in the 1920s.
  • (noun) A stockbroking firm which sells stock to clients when it has an undisclosed relationship with that company or its owners.
  • (noun) (travel) A travel agency selling discounted airfares, usually in defiance of existing minimum fare arrangements. Now usually refers to any small cheap agency.

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun A stockbroking firm which takes small orders from clients and takes them on its own account rather than actually transmitting them to the market. Prevalent in the US 1870s to 1920s; often set up as shop-fronts in the 1920s.
  2. 2
    noun A stockbroking firm which sells stock to clients when it has an undisclosed relationship with that company or its owners.
  3. 3
    noun (travel) A travel agency selling discounted airfares, usually in defiance of existing minimum fare arrangements. Now usually refers to any small cheap agency.
  4. 4
    noun A legal services firm selling heavily discounted legal services and documents made in large volume from boilerplate text and clauses, sometimes as a white labelled loss leader.
  5. 5
    noun A company that sells coats of arms associated with the customer's surname, regardless of whether the customer can claim any relation to the original armiger.
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