banker

See also: Banker and bankéř

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbæŋkə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbæŋkɚ/

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• Rhymes: -æŋkə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

bank +‎ -er, after French banquier.

Noun

banker (plural bankers)

1. 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.
   • 185?, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

     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.

2. The dealer in a casino, or one who keeps the bank in a banking game.
3. (obsolete) A money changer.
4. The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.

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
• bankeress
• bankerish
• banker lamp, banker's lamp
• 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
• city banker
• investment banker
• merchant banker
• private investment banker
• shadow banker
• zombie banker

 

Related terms

• bank
• banking

Translations

one who conducts the business of banking

• Albanian: bankier (sq) m
• Arabic: مَصْرَفِيّ‎ m (maṣrafiyy), بَنْكِيّ‎ m (bankiyy)
• Azerbaijani: bankir
• Belarusian: банкі́р m (bankír)
• Bulgarian: ба́нкер (bg) m (bánker)
• Catalan: banquer m, banquera f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 銀行家／银行家 (zh) (yínhángjiā)

• Czech: bankéř (cs) m
• Danish: bankier (da) c
• Dutch: bankier (nl) m
• Esperanto: bankisto, bankistino (female)
• Estonian: pankur
• Finnish: pankkiiri (fi)
• French: banquier (fr) m, banquière (fr) f
• German: Bankier (de) m, Bankierin (de) f
• Greek: τραπεζίτης (el) m (trapezítis)
• Hebrew: בנקאי‎ m (banka'i), בנקאית‎ f (banka'ít)
• Hindi: बैंकर (hi) (baiṅkar)
• Hungarian: bankár (hu)
• Ido: bankisto (io)
• Indonesian: bankir (id)
• Irish: baincéir m
• Italian: banchiere (it) m
• Japanese: 銀行家 (ja) (ぎんこうか, ginkōka)
• Korean: 은행가(銀行家) (eunhaengga)
• Latin: argentārius m
• Lithuanian: bankininkas m
• Macedonian: банкар m (bankar)
• Malay: jurubank
• Maltese: bankier m, bankiera f
• Norman: bantchi (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bankier m

  Nynorsk: bankier m

• Persian: بانکدار‎ (fa) (bânkâr)
• Plautdietsch: Bankia m
• Polish: bankier (pl) m, bankierka (pl) f
• Portuguese: banqueiro (pt) m, banqueira (pt) f
• Romanian: bancher (ro) m
• Russian: банки́р (ru) m (bankír), банки́рша (ru) f (bankírša) (colloquial for female)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ба̀нка̄р m

  Roman: bànkār (sh) m

• Slovak: bankár m
• Slovene: bančnik m
• Spanish: banquero (es) m, banquera f
• Swedish: bankir (sv) c
• Turkish: bankacı (tr)
• Ukrainian: банкі́р (uk) m (bankír)
• Vietnamese: chủ ngân hàng
• Yiddish: באַנקיר‎ m (bankir), באַנקירער‎ m (bankirer)

money changer

• Finnish: rahanvaihtaja
• German: Geldwechsler (de) m, Geldwechslerin f
• Greek: αργυραμοιβός (el) m (argyramoivós)
• Romanian: zaraf (ro) m

dealer

• Albanian: tregtar (sq)
• Catalan: banquer m, banquera f
• Czech: bankéř (cs) m
• Finnish: pelinhoitaja, pankki (fi)
• German: Bank (de) f, Bankhalter (de) m, Bankhalterin (de) f
• Irish: baincéir m, scríbín m
• Romanian: bancher (ro) m
• Russian: банкомёт (ru) m (bankomjót)
• Spanish: banquero (es) m, banquera f
• Swedish: bankir (sv) c

stone bench

Etymology 2

From bank (“an elevation, or rising ground”) +‎ -er (relational noun suffix) or +‎ -er (occupational suffix).

Noun

banker (plural bankers)

1. 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

2. (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.

3. (mining) A banksman.

Translations

vessel

ditcher

Etymology 3

From bank (“an incline or hill”) +‎ -er.

Noun

banker (plural bankers)

1. (rail transport, Britain, 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

railway locomotive

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 補機／补机 (zh) (bǔjī)

• Finnish: työntöveturi
• Romanian: locomotivă împingătoare f

Anagrams

• barken

Danish

Noun

banker c pl

1. indefinite plural of bank

Verb

banker

1. present of banke

Ladino

Noun

banker m (Latin spelling)

1. banker

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From banke +‎ -er.

Noun

banker m (definite singular bankeren, indefinite plural bankere, definite plural bankerne)

1. a beater (implement used for beating)

Derived terms

• teppebanker

Etymology 2

Noun

banker m pl

1. indefinite plural of bank.
2. indefinite plural of banke

Etymology 3

Verb

banker

1. present of banke

References

• “banker_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Swedish

Noun

banker

1. indefinite plural of bank

Anagrams

• barken

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بانكر‎ (banḱer), from French banquier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ban.cɛɾ/

Noun

banker (definite accusative bankeri, plural bankerler)

1. banker
2. (idiomatic) rich person

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	banker
Definite accusative	bankeri
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	banker	bankerler
Definite accusative	bankeri	bankerleri
Dative	bankere	bankerlere
Locative	bankerde	bankerlerde
Ablative	bankerden	bankerlerden
Genitive	bankerin	bankerlerin
Predicative forms Singular Plural 1st singular bankerim bankerlerim 2nd singular bankersin bankerlersin 3rd singular banker bankerdir bankerler bankerlerdir 1st plural bankeriz bankerleriz 2nd plural bankersiniz bankerlersiniz 3rd plural bankerler bankerlerdir