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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
bank + -er, after French banquier.
Noun
banker (plural bankers)
- 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.
- 185?, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
- 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.
- The dealer in a casino, or one who keeps the bank in a banking game.
- (obsolete) A money changer.
- The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.
Hyponyms
- 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)
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Descendants
Translations
one who conducts the business of banking
- Albanian: bankier (sq) m
- Arabic: مَصْرَفِيّ m (maṣrafiyy), بَنْكِيّ m (bankiyy)
- Azerbaijani: bankir
- Belarusian: банкі́р m (bankír)
- Bulgarian: банке́р (bg) m (bankér)
- Catalan: banquer m, banquera f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 銀行家/银行家 (zh) (yínhángjiā)
- Czech: bankéř (cs) m
- Danish: bankier (da) c
- Dutch: bankier (nl) m
- Esperanto: bankisto, bankistino (female)
- Estonian: pankur
- Finnish: pankkiiri (fi)
- French: banquier (fr) m, banquière (fr) f
- German: Bankier (de) m, Bankierin (de) f
- Greek: τραπεζίτης (el) m (trapezítis)
- Hebrew: בנקאי m (banka'i), בנקאית f (banka'ít)
- Hindi: बैंकर (hi) (ba͠ikar)
- Hungarian: bankár (hu)
- Ido: bankisto (io)
- Indonesian: bankir (id)
- Irish: baincéir m
- Italian: banchiere (it) m
- Japanese: 銀行家 (ja) (ぎんこうか, ginkōka)
- Korean: 은행가(銀行家) (eunhaengga)
- Latin: argentārius m
- Lithuanian: bankininkas m
- Macedonian: банкар m (bankar)
- Malay: jurubank
- Maltese: bankier m, bankiera f
- Norman: bantchi (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bankier m
- Nynorsk: bankier m
- Persian: بانکدار (fa) (bânkâr)
- Plautdietsch: Bankia m
- Polish: bankier (pl) m, bankierka (pl) f
- Portuguese: banqueiro (pt) m, banqueira (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਬੈਂਕਰ m (baiṅkar)
- Romanian: bancher (ro) m
- Russian: банки́р (ru) m (bankír), банки́рша (ru) f (bankírša) (colloquial for female)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ба̀нка̄р m
- Roman: bànkār (sh) m
- Slovak: bankár m
- Slovene: bančnik m
- Spanish: banquero (es) m, banquera f
- Swedish: bankir (sv) c
- Turkish: bankacı (tr)
- Ukrainian: банкі́р (uk) m (bankír)
- Vietnamese: chủ ngân hàng
- Welsh: bancwr m
- Yiddish: באַנקיר m (bankir), באַנקירער m (bankirer)
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Etymology 2
From bank (“an elevation, or rising ground”) + -er (relational noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix).
Noun
banker (plural bankers)
- 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
- (UK, dialect) A ditcher; a drain digger.
1941, Ernestine Hill, My Love Must Wait, A&R Classics, published 2013, page 6:But this was no storm, the bankers could have told him. It was break of the year.
- (mining) A banksman.
Translations
Etymology 3
From bank (“an incline or hill”) + -er.
Noun
banker (plural bankers)
- (rail transport, British, Australia) A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.
1944 January and February, W. McGowan Gradon, “Forres as a Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 23:Between them these engines work passenger trains on the Keith line, and also act as bankers up to Dava when required.
1960 May, “Motive Power Miscellany: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 314: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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References
- ^ 1849-1850, John Weale, Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms used in Architecture, Building, and Engineering
Anagrams
Danish
Noun
banker c pl
- indefinite plural of bank
Verb
banker
- present of banke
Ladino
Noun
banker m (Latin spelling)
- banker
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From banke + -er.
Noun
banker m (definite singular bankeren, indefinite plural bankere, definite plural bankerne)
- a beater (implement used for beating)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
banker m pl
- indefinite plural of bank.
- indefinite plural of banke
Etymology 3
Verb
banker
- present of banke
References
Swedish
Noun
banker
- indefinite plural of bank
Anagrams
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish بانكر (banḱer), from French banquier.
Pronunciation
Noun
banker (definite accusative bankeri, plural bankerler)
- banker
- (idiomatic) rich person
Declension