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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



... The banker's daughter flushed. Though she loved the pretty clothes and though the sense of superiority to other children, carefully cultivated by her mother, was the very breath of her nostrils, she had never been quite so happy as this ...
— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow
... of Ophir floated on these quiet waters! Now, Chinese junks, Malay prahus, a few Chinese steamers, steam-launches from the native States, and two steamers which call in passing, make up its trade. There is neither newspaper, banker, hotel, nor resident English merchant, The half-caste descendants of the Portuguese are, generally speaking, indolent, degraded with the degradation that is born of indolence, and proud. The Malays dream away their lives in ...
— The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither • Isabella L. Bird (Mrs. Bishop)
... by the like easy journeys, but tarried not to see any thing of that vast metropolis, any more than we did in going through it before; your beloved brother only stopping at his banker's, and desiring him to look out for a handsome house, which he proposes to take for his winter residence. He chooses it to be about the new buildings called Hanover Square; and he left Mr. Longman there to see one, which his banker believed ...
— Pamela (Vol. II.) • Samuel Richardson
... not wait to enumerate these characteristics or to realise them, and they remain satisfied with the extremely vague idea springing from an unanalysed concept. Consequently they use the word "mind" with the imprudence of a banker who should discount a trade bill without ascertaining whether the payment of that particular piece of paper had been provided for. This amounts to saying that the discussion of philosophical problems takes especially a verbal aspect; and the more complex ...
— The Mind and the Brain - Being the Authorised Translation of L'me et le Corps • Alfred Binet
... parallel lines drawn across them, with or without the addition of the words "& Co.," they will only be paid to a banker. ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous


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