banker
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From bank + -er, after French banquier.
Noun
banker (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.
- 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
- I have a good banker in this city, but I would not wish to draw upon the house until the time when I shall draw for a round sum.
- 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.[1]
- 1895, Thomas Hardy, “II-ii”, in Jude the Obscure, London: Osgood:
- [T]he new traceries, mullions, transoms, shafts, pinnacles, and battlements standing on the bankers half worked[.]
- (stationery) A type of envelope with a diamond shape or V-flap that opens on the long edge.
- Synonyms: banker's envelope, invitation envelope
Hyponyms
- usurer (offering loans, esp. at very high interest); loan shark (independent, offering loans at high interest); saraf (early modern Middle East & India); shroff (early modern India & SE Asia)
Derived terms
- bankerage
- bankerdom
- bankeress
- bankerish
- banker lamp, banker's lamp
- bankerless
- bankerly
- banker's acceptance
- banker's card
- banker's cheque
- banker's dozen
- banker's draft
- banker's envelope
- bankership
- bankers' hours
- banker's lien
- banker's order
- bankers' rounding
- bankster
- biobanker
- city banker
- investment banker
- merchant banker
- nonbanker
- private investment banker
- shadow banker
- zombie banker
Related terms
Descendants
Translations
one who conducts the business of banking
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money changer
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dealer
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stone bench
Etymology 2
From bank (“an elevation, or rising ground”) + -er (relational noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix).
Noun
banker (plural bankers)
- A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
- May 20 1815, John Quincy Adams, letter to a merchant
- I think the 584 Bankers may be put down 36,540 tons, navigated by 4,627 men and boys
- May 20 1815, John Quincy Adams, letter to a merchant
- (UK, dialect) A ditcher; a drain digger.
- 1941, Ernestine Hill, My Love Must Wait, A&R Classics, published 2013, page 6:
- But this was no storm, the bankers could have told him. It was break of the year.
- (mining) A banksman.
- (Australia, colloquial) A watercourse filled from bank to bank.
Translations
vessel
ditcher
Etymology 3
From bank (“an incline or hill”) + -er.
Noun
banker (plural bankers)
- (rail transport, British, Australia) A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.
- 1944 January and February, W. McGowan Gradon, “Forres as a Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 23:
- Between them these engines work passenger trains on the Keith line, and also act as bankers up to Dava when required.
- 1960 May, “Motive Power Miscellany: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 314:
- Because of a shortage of W.R. pannier tanks, two "E6" 0-6-2 tanks, Nos. 32410/5, were engaged as bankers on the Folkestone Harbour branch at the beginning of March; [...].
Synonyms
- (railway locomotive): bank engine, banking engine (UK), helper, helper engine (US)
Translations
References
- 1849-1850, John Weale, Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms used in Architecture, Building, and Engineering
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