banker

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbæŋkə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbæŋkɚ/

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æŋkə(r)

bank +‎ -er, after French banquier.

banker (plural bankers)

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. (obsolete) A money changer.
3. The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.
4. The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Weale to this entry?)

• usurer (offering loans, esp. at very high interest); loan shark (independent, offering loans at high interest); saraf (early modern Middle East & India); shroff (early modern India & SE Asia)

• bank
• banking

From bank (“an elevation, or rising ground”) + +‎ -er

banker (plural bankers)

1. A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
2. (Britain, dialectal) A ditcher; a drain digger.
   • 1941, Ernestine Hill, My Love Must Wait, A&R Classics 2013, p. 6:

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

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Grabb to this entry?)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of John Quincy Adams to this entry?)

3. (mining) A banksman.

From bank (“an incline or hill”) +‎ -er.

banker (plural bankers)

1. (rail transport, Britain, Australia) A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.

• (railway locomotive): bank engine (UK), helper, helper engine (US)

• barken

banker c pl

1. indefinite plural of bank

banker

1. present of banke

banker m (Latin spelling)

1. banker

From banke +‎ -er

banker m (definite singular bankeren, indefinite plural bankere, definite plural bankerne)

1. a beater (implement used for beating)

• teppebanker

banker m pl

1. indefinite plural of bank.
2. indefinite plural of banke

banker

1. present of banke

• “banker_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

banker

1. indefinite plural of bank .