'broking' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is usually used as a verb to refer to the act of an individual or an organisation that arranges transactions between a buyer and a seller. Example sentence: The company has been successful in broking lucrative deals for its clients.
IF ISRAELI and Palestinian headlines agree on anything, it is that the negotiations John Kerry, America's secretary of state, began broking last July are running into the sand.
After the bruising experience of recent years the chances of broking another big global deal look vanishingly small.
In columns and on the airwaves, Obama defenders noted that Israel has swapped terrorist prisoners for captive soldiers, and that Ronald Reagan's administration sought to free American hostages in Lebanon by broking the sale of arms to Iran.
Broking houses such as Kuehne & Nagel can offer their skills in tying together different modes of transport.
Firms such as Hilco, a privately held Illinois firm, can help, either by broking the sales or by buying assets themselves and selling them later.
After broking the sale of Bear Stearns, another Wall Street firm, and nationalising the country's mortgage agencies, officials felt an example needed to be made so as to combat "moral hazard", or the risk that banks will act recklessly if they know they will be bailed out when their bets sour.
When they were younger, these men took to the streets to fight their exploitation by the yakuza, the organised crime syndicates which still run the local labour-broking and gambling rackets.
That makes it less attractive to hold swaps, as both the swap itself and any offsetting hedge add to a bank's leverage, even though the hedge serves to reduce risk.At the same time the profits from bond-broking are being compressed as trading moves away from adrenaline-driven salesmen on phones and onto electronic platforms.
Anybody who follows the news will probably know that one of his jobs involves peace-broking in the Holy Land.
The right sort of religious peace-broking is really vital if the dispute itself has to do with religion.
He learnt, during his successful peace-broking in Northern Ireland in 1995-98, that groups such as the Irish Republican Army could not be expected to meet preconditions, such as a definitive disavowal of violence, if an eventual peace was to be achieved.
