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View synonyms for marriage broker
marriage broker
noun
- a person who arranges marriages, usually between strangers, for a fee.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of marriage broker1
First recorded in 1675–85
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Example Sentences
Polatkin nodded and turned to the examination of a pile of monthly statements by way of dismissing the marriage broker.
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So my father, at the age of sixteen and a half, lent a willing ear to the cooing voice of the marriage broker.
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At the same time the marriage broker proposed another match; and my father's poor cousins bristled with importance once more.
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His name was Steiner, and he set himself up in business as an international marriage broker.
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Perhaps this scheming marriage-broker had shed her worldly scales under the stress of emotion.
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