banker
see also: Banker
Pronunciation Noun
Banker
Noun
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see also: Banker
Pronunciation 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.
- (obsolete) A money changer.
- The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.
- The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.
- French: banquier, banquière
- German: Bankier, Bankierin
- Italian: banchiere
- Portuguese: banqueiro, banqueira
- Russian: банки́р
- Spanish: banquero, banquera
- German: Geldwechsler, Geldwechslerin
banker (plural bankers)
- A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
- (UK, dialect) A ditcher; a drain digger.
- 1941, Ernestine Hill, My Love Must Wait, A&R Classics 2013, p. 6:
- But this was no storm, the bankers could have told him. It was break of the year.
- 1941, Ernestine Hill, My Love Must Wait, A&R Classics 2013, p. 6:
- (mining) A banksman.
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.
- (railway locomotive) bank engine (UK), helper, helper engine (US)
Banker
Noun
banker (plural bankers)
- 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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