banker
English
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Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file) - Rhymes: -æŋkə(r)
Etymology 1
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.
- (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.
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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
Related terms
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
Noun
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.
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- 1941, Ernestine Hill, My Love Must Wait, A&R Classics 2013, p. 6:
- (mining) A banksman.
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.
Synonyms
- (railway locomotive): bank engine (UK), helper, helper engine (US)
Translations
railway locomotive
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Anagrams
Danish
Noun
banker c pl
- indefinite plural of bank
Verb
banker
Ladino
Noun
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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Noun
banker m (definite singular bankeren, indefinite plural bankere, definite plural bankerne)
- a beater (implement used for beating)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
banker m pl
- indefinite plural of bank.
- indefinite plural of banke
Etymology 3
Verb
banker
References
- “banker_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Swedish
Noun
banker
Anagrams
Categories:
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/æŋkə(r)
- English terms suffixed with -er
- English terms derived from French
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with obsolete senses
- Requests for quotations/Weale
- British English
- English dialectal terms
- Requests for quotations/Grabb
- Requests for quotations/John Quincy Adams
- en:Mining
- en:Rail transportation
- Australian English
- en:Occupations
- en:People
- Danish non-lemma forms
- Danish noun plural forms
- Danish verb forms
- lad:Occupations
- Norwegian Bokmål terms suffixed with -er
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Bokmål noun forms
- Norwegian Bokmål verb forms
- Swedish non-lemma forms
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