banker

UK /ˈbæŋkə/ US /ˈbæŋkə/
noun 14name 1

Definitions

noun

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.

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.

2

The dealer in a casino, or one who keeps the bank in a banking game.

3

A money changer.

4

The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.

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

5

A type of envelope with a diamond shape or V-flap that opens on the long edge.

noun

1

A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.

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

2

A ditcher; a drain digger.

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

3

Synonym of browman.

4

A watercourse filled from bank to bank.

noun

1

A bet that is almost certain to succeed.

2

A very safe option.

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.

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