banker

See also: Banker and bankéř

English

Pronunciation

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

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• Rhymes: -æŋkə(r)

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

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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

 

Related terms

• bank
• banking

Translations

one who conducts the business of banking

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

  Mandarin: 銀行家／银行家 (zh) (yínhángjiā), 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 f
• Greek: τραπεζίτης (el) m (trapezítis)
• Hebrew: בנקאי m (banka'i), בנקאית f (banka'ít)
• Hungarian: bankár (hu)
• Ido: bankisto (io)
• Interlingue:
• Irish: baincéir m
• Italian: banchiere (it) m
• Japanese: 銀行家 (ぎんこうか, ginkōka)
• Korean: 은행가 (eunhaengga), 銀行家
• Latin: argentārius m
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• Macedonian: банкар m (bankar)
• Maltese: bankier m, bankiera f
• Norman: bantchi (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bankier m

  Nynorsk: bankier m

• Persian: بانکدار (fa) (bânkâr)
• Polish: bankier (pl) m
• 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
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• 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 m, Bankhalterin f
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• 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

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Etymology 2

From bank (“an elevation, or rising ground”) + +‎ -er

Noun

banker (plural bankers)

1. A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
2. (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.

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3. (mining) A banksman.

Translations

vessel

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ditcher

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Etymology 3

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

Noun

banker (plural bankers)

1. (rail transport, British, Australia) A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.

Synonyms

• (railway locomotive): bank engine (UK), helper, helper engine (US)

Translations

railway locomotive

• Finnish: työntöveturi
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• Romanian: locomotivă împingătoare f

Anagrams

• barken

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Danish

Noun

banker c pl

1. indefinite plural of bank

Verb

banker

1. (deprecated template usage) present of banke

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Ladino

Noun

1. banker

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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. (deprecated template usage) present of banke

References

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

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Swedish

Noun

banker

1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of bank.

Anagrams

• barken