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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



... fact that they might not recognize me! There should be no difficulty. I'd suggest, however, that you start a savings account at the local bank with the enclosed salary check. You have no idea how much weight the local banker carries in his character-reference of folks with a ...
— The Fourth R • George Oliver Smith
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... banker, catching his own name, and waking up from a brown study, in which he had seemed to see nothing—except, perhaps, the newspaper, which, in its printed cover, lay between himself and Mrs. Halifax. "Eh? did any one—Oh, I beg pardon—beg pardon—Sir Herbert," hastily added the ...
— John Halifax, Gentleman • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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... were thickly sown in the banker's face, and as there were no round, rosy-cheeked children in his silent home to kiss them away, they stayed and grew deeper each day. He half smiled, however, as he picked up the Greenaway envelope and curiously broke the seal. ...
— What Two Children Did • Charlotte E. Chittenden
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... this stately procession were the nations or foreign merchants in this order: Venetians, Florentines—at the head of the latter marched Thomas Portinari, banker and councillor of the duke at the same time that he was chief of their nation and therefore dressed in their garb; Spaniards; Genoese—these latter showed a mystery, a beautiful girl on horseback guarded by St. George from the dragon.—Then came the ...
— Charles the Bold - Last Duke Of Burgundy, 1433-1477 • Ruth Putnam
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... demi-vierges is furnished to his friend from the provinces by the critical Parisian man of the world:—"There have happened in Paris, within the last fifteen years, two grave events,—two kracks, as my brother the banker would say.... Firstly, the krack of modesty. Our epoch may be compared to the Latin decadence or to the Renaissance, in the matter of love. Our young girls (I refer to those of the idle world of pleasure) no longer serve naked at the table of the Medicis; they do not wear necklaces of representations ...
— Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 • William Walton
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