Meaning of Banker | Babel Free

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.

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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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