- a person who owns or manages a bank
- the person in charge of the bank in some gambling games
Origin of banker
from bank, by analogy with French banquier
A couple discuss their finances with a banker.
The definition of a banker is any person who works in the banking industry.
An example of a banker is a finance professional who deals with personal stock transactions.
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banker
a person or boat engaged in cod fishing on the Newfoundland banks
Origin of banker
from bank the workbench of a bricklayer, mason, or sculptor
Origin of banker
bank, in obsolete sense “bench” + -erWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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banker
noun
- One serving as an officer or owner of a bank.
- Games The player in charge of the bank in some gambling games.
Related Forms:
- bank′er·ly
adjective
noun
One engaged in cod fishing off Newfoundland.
noun
A workbench used by a mason or sculptor.
Origin of banker
From bank 3 bench (obsolete)THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural bankers)
- 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, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.
- The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.
Origin
From bank + -er, after French banquier
Noun
(plural bankers)
- A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
- (UK, dialect) A ditcher; a drain digger.
Origin
From bank (An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea) + -er
Noun
(plural bankers)
- (rail transport, UK, Australia) A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.
Origin
From bank (“an incline or hill”) + -er.
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Sentence Examples
- On his return to Paris he had become acquainted with Etienne Claviere, the Genevese exile, and a banker named Panchaud.
- Laymen also belonged to it, like Hermann of Fritzlar and Rulman Merswin, the rich banker of Strassburg (author of a mystical work, Buck der neon Felsen, on the nine rocks or upwards steps of contemplation).
- He was the son of a banker of Dauphiny, and after receiving his early education at a lyceum, was sent in 1813 to the Ecole Polytechnique.
- It remained a ruin until 1874, when it was purchased by a wealthy banker, M.
- JOHN HENRY NEWMAN (1801-1890), English Cardinal, was born in London on the 21st of February 1801, the eldest son of John Newman, banker, of the firm of Ramsbottom, Newman and Co.
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