Banker

Definitions

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 vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
3. A native or resident of the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
4. A barangay of Kabasalan, Zamboanga Sibugay, Philippines.
5. A bet that is almost certain to succeed.
   UK
6. A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.
   Australia, British
7. The dealer in a casino, or one who keeps the bank in a banking game.
8. A Banker horse, a feral horse from the islands of North Carolina's Outer Banks.
9. A ditcher; a drain digger.
   UK, dialectal
10. A very safe option.
    UK, broadly
11. A money changer.
    obsolete
12. Synonym of browman.
13. The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.
14. A watercourse filled from bank to bank.
    Australia, colloquial
15. A type of envelope with a diamond shape or V-flap that opens on the long edge.

Equivalents

42 more languages

Afrikaansbankier

العربيةالمصرفيّبَنْكِيّصرافمَصْرَفِيّ+ 1 more

Azərbaycan dilibankir

Българскибанкербанкерка

Bosanskibankarбанкар

Catalàbanquer

Češtinabankéřbankéřka

Cymraegbancwr

Ελληνικάαργυραμοιβόςτραπεζίτης

Esperantobankisto

Eestipankur

Suomipankkipankkiiripelinhoitajarahanvaihtaja+ 1 more

Gaeilgebaincéir

עבריתשלחני

हिन्दीसाहसेठ

Hrvatskibankarбанкар

Magyarbankár

Bahasa Indonesiabankir

Italianobanchierabanchierebanchiero

日本語バンカー行員銀行員銀行家+ 1 more

ქართულიბანკირი

ភាសាខ្មែរធនាគារិក

한국어은행가은행원행원

Kurdîbankbanker

Latinaargentariuscollybistamensariusnegotiator+ 1 more

Македонскибанкарбанкарка

Bahasa Melayujurubank

Nederlandsbankier

ਪੰਜਾਬੀਬੈਂਕਰ

Polskibankierbankierkabankierskibankowiec+ 1 more

Portuguêsbanqueirabanqueiro

Românăbancherzaraf

Русскийбанкирбанки́ршабанкомётменяла+ 1 more

Slovenčinabankár

Shqiptregtar

Српскиbankarбанкар

Svenskabankir

Kiswahilimwanabenki

ไทยนายธนาคาร

Türkçebankacıbanker

Українськабанкір

Tiếng Việtcái

Examples

“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.”

“[T]he new traceries, mullions, transoms, shafts, pinnacles, and battlements standing on the bankers half worked[.]”

“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”

“But this was no storm, the bankers could have⟳ told him. It was break⟳ of the year.”

“When Jose came to Manchester United, two and a half years ago, this was the no-brainer, the banker, the one which couldn't fail⟳. The one who had never failed.”

“Between them these engines work⟳ passenger trains on the Keith line, and also act as bankers up to Dava when required.”

“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⟳; [...].”

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