| 词汇 | floor broker |
| 词源 | floor broker. Brokers today are associated with stocks or real estate, but all brokers were originally brocours, or men who opened up wine casks (usually to bottle and sell the wine inside). This old French word came to be transferred to wine salesmen, or brokers, and finally to one who sold anything at all. Wall Street brokers who work on the floor (or in the pit) of the exchange are called floor brokers; they were once called $2 brokers because they received a fee of $2 per transaction. |
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