ship-broker

noun

a person who acts for a shipowner by getting cargo and passengers for his ships and also handling insurance and other matters

Words nearby ship-broker

ship's company, ship's inertial navigation system, ship's papers, ship's store, ship's stores, ship-broker, ship-rigged, ship-to-shore, shipboard, shipborne, shipboy

Example sentences from the Web for ship-broker

  • The ship-broker started a little as he glanced at the card and realized Scarterfield's calling.

    Ravensdene Court |J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

  • Her father was a ship-broker, and afterwards had vessels of his own.

    Notable Women Authors of the Day |Helen C. Black

  • "Well, it so happened that I'd just the very thing they seemed to want," continued the ship-broker.

    Ravensdene Court |J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

  • Father outdoor clerk of some ship-broker in Rotterdam; mother dead.

    An Outcast of the Islands |Joseph Conrad