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broker

verb/ˈbrəʊkə/

B1CEFR level
25/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

To arrange or negotiate an agreement between other parties.

A retired diplomat was brought in to broker a settlement between the shareholders.

Similar: mediate, arrange

Topic: Negotiation in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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