From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. The business or employment of a broker. --Burke.
2. The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a stock broker's business; charges a fee to act as intermediary between buyer and seller [syn: {brokerage firm}, {securities firm}]
2: the business of a broker; charges a fee to arrange a contract between two parties
3: place where a broker conducts his business [syn: {brokerage house}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "brokerage": admission, admission fee, agency, anchorage, barter, bartering, boiler room, brokerage house, brokerage office, bucket shop, buying and selling, carfare, cellarage, charge, charges, cover charge, dealing, demand, dockage, doing business, dues, entrance fee, exaction, exactment, exchange, fare, fee, give-and-take, hire, horse trading, interchange, jobbing, legal bucketing, license fee, merchandising, pilotage, portage, retailing, salvage, scot, scot and lot, shot, stockbrokerage, stockbroking, stockjobbery, stockjobbing, storage, swapping, toll, towage, trade, trading, trafficking, wharfage, wheeling and dealing, wholesaling
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