Why is a person that handles your money called a 'Broker'?

Why is a person that handles your money called a %26#039;Broker%26#039;?

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They make sure you become broker while they get richer

stock (n.2)
%26quot;supply for future use%26quot; (1428), %26quot;sum of money%26quot; (1463), M.E. developments of stock (n.1), but the ultimate sense connection is uncertain. Perhaps the notion is of the %26quot;trunk%26quot; from which gains are an outgrowth, or obs. sense of %26quot;money-box%26quot; (c.1400). Meaning %26quot;subscribed capital of a corporation%26quot; is from 1612. Stock-broker is from 1706; stock exchange is from 1773. The verb meaning %26quot;to supply (a store) with stock%26quot; is from 1622; in stock %26quot;in the possession of a trader%26quot; is from 1618. Meaning %26quot;broth made by boiling meat or vegetables%26quot; is from 1764. Theatrical use, in ref. to a company regularly acting together at a given theater, is attested from 1761. In ref. to conversation or literature, %26quot;recurring, commonplace%26quot; (e.g. stock phrase), it is attested from 1738, on notion of %26quot;kept in store for constant use.%26quot; Taking stock %26quot;making an inventory%26quot; is attested from 1736. As the collective term for the movable property of a farm, it is recorded from 1519; hence livestock (1523). www.etymology.com
because mine made me broker.....

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