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Banker   /bˈæŋkər/   Listen
noun
Banker  n.  
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.
A money changer. (Obs.)
3.
The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.
4.
A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
5.
A ditcher; a drain digger. (Prov. Eng.)
6.
The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work.





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"Banker" Quotes from Famous Books



... Church near the Hay-market, and other places of public worship: I see that he visited the News Room in Duke-street, the Lyceum in Bold-street, and the Theater Royal; and that he called to pay his respects to the eminent Mr. Roscoe, the historian, poet, and banker. ...
— Redburn. His First Voyage • Herman Melville
... was used to heat houses in Minneapolis, while wheat grown in Dakota was milled in Duluth, made into crackers in Boston and sold all over New England, there arose the problem of the relation between mining, wheat raising, transport, manufacturing, and merchandising. Thus far the banker has acted as the go-between in holding this machinery together, but he labors under two important disqualifications: first, he does not represent anyone except himself and his fellow owners and is therefore ...
— The Next Step - A Plan for Economic World Federation • Scott Nearing
... had advantages for which those who marvelled as to how they managed failed to make due allowance. They were both of good family—in fact, their escutcheons were better to investigate than their banker's account. Both popular in their own way, they were always in request to make up a party for Hurlingham dinners, the Ascot week, or other similar diversion. They did not affect to entertain; but the half-dozen little dinners—strictly limited to eight ...
— Belles and Ringers • Hawley Smart
... put them in order. He flung in the fire a bundle of bills which he had against petty and embarrassed tradesmen. He wrote and sealed a letter, and on the envelope it might have been read, had there been any one in his chamber at the moment, To Monsieur Laffitte, Banker, Rue d'Artois, Paris. He drew from his secretary a pocket-book which contained several bank-notes and the passport of which he had made use that same year when ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo
... a sum of money to one of his friends, had the fact duly attested by a banker in the market-place, remembering belike ...
— Plutarch's Morals • Plutarch


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