playbroker

[ pley-broh-ker ]

noun

1. play agent.

Word History and Origins

Origin of playbroker¹

An Americanism dating back to 1905–10; play + broker

Example Sentences

Playbroker      Authors'      Manuscripts      Placed She had little doubt of her ability to launch out into a scheme of this sort for herself and liked to incubate the idea in the back of her head, going so far as to inspect a tiny office on the fifteenth floor, mentally furnishing it up, and visualizing her name in neat black letters on her own ground-glass door.

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