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pure finder en · NOUN
Meanings
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(obsolete) Someone who collected dog faeces for sale to tanneries (which used it as a siccative for bookbinding leather). Undertaken by poor people in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The pure-finders meet with a ready market for all the dogs’-dung they are able to collect, at the numerous tanyards in Bermondsey.
1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 2, page 14:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pure, finder.
As one commentator has noted, although a pure finder may "induce the purchase or sale of" a security within the meaning of Section 15(a)(1), he or she is not normally a "broker" because he or she effects no transactions.
2001 July, Howard S. Meyers, Finder's fee agreements: Potential pitfalls and considerations, The Attorney-CPA, published 2002, page 3:
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