banker
IPA: bˈæŋkɝ
noun
- One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.
- The dealer in a casino, or one who keeps the bank in a banking game.
- (obsolete) A money changer.
- The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.
- A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
- (UK, dialect) A ditcher; a drain digger.
- (mining) A banksman.
- (rail transport, Britain, Australia) A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.
- A native or resident of the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
- A Banker horse, a feral horse from the islands of North Carolina's Outer Banks.
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Examples of "banker" in Sentences
- The bankers depleted the interest rates.
- The banker allowed him to take the money.
- The banker adviced him for provident life.
- He was the banker of France in the era of John Law.
- The bankers attributed the failure to bad management.
- In the country at the home of the banker Nathanael Brassey.
- In general crossing the name of the banker is not mentioned.
- He was married to the sister of the Ottoman banker in Amman.
- He married in 1828 the daughter of the banker Pierre Laffite.
- He is a banker in charge of the affairs of the Baudelaire orphans.
- But if being a banker is a personal privilege, it is also a public right.
- LIMBAUGH: To some people, "banker" is code word for Jewish; and guess who Obama is assaulting?
- I agree with Mike Diehl those Gyrojets were as accurate as a banker is a warm caring human being.
- Of course, "banker" is hardly the right word -- these big corporations aren't exactly George Bailey's Building & Loan.
- Banks will shave three hours from their business day whenever Brazil is on the pitch, adding new meaning to the term banker's hours.
- After several years of financial crisis, during which the word banker had become a catchall epithet for the undeserving rich, the global economy appeared to be on the mend.
- The piquancy of all this is that if the term banker is ever to be restored to its former prestige, the public and Wall St might reflect on one highly relevant example of a banker who was not a bankster.
- Young company Waking Exploits are reviving this boisterous comedy and taking it out on tour at a moment in time when people's faith in financial institutions is at an all-time low and the word banker has almost become synonymous with villain.