brokage

English

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹoʊkɪd͡ʒ/

Noun

brokage (countable and uncountable, plural brokages)

(archaic) The act of a broker; brokerage.
- 1616, Ben Jonson, “On Poet Ape”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson:
  From brokage is become so bold a thief, / As we, the robbed, leave rage, and pity it.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “brokage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

borkage

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