banker

See also: Banker and bankéř

Contents

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbæŋkə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbæŋkɚ/
• Rhymes: -æŋkə(r)

Etymology 1Edit

bank +‎ -er, after French banquier.

NounEdit

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.

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Related termsEdit

• bankerage
• bankership
• banking

TranslationsEdit

one who conducts the business of banking

• Albanian: bankier (sq) m
• Arabic: مَصْرَفِيّ‏‎ m (maṣrafiyy), بَنْكِيّ‏‎ m (bankiyy)
• Catalan: banquer m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 銀行家 (zh), 银行家 (zh) (yínhángjiā)

• Czech: bankéř (cs) m
• Dutch: bankier (nl) m
• Esperanto: bankisto
• Estonian: pankur
• Finnish: pankkiiri (fi)
• French: banquier (fr) m
• German: Bankier (de) m
• Greek: τραπεζίτης (el) m (trapezítis)
• Hebrew: בנקאי‏‎ m (banqa'y), בנקאית‏‎ f (banqa'yt)
• Hungarian: bankár (hu)
• Ido: bankisto (io)
• Irish: baincéir m

• Japanese: 銀行家 (ぎんこうか, ginkōka)
• Korean: 은행가 (eunhaeng-ga), 銀行家
• Maltese: bankier m, bankiera f
• Norman: bantchi (Jersey)
• Persian: بانكدار‏‎ (fa)
• Portuguese: banqueiro (pt) m
• Romanian: bancher (ro) m
• Russian: банки́р (ru) m (bankír)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ба̀нка̄р m

  Roman: bànkār (sh) m

• Spanish: banquero (es) m, banquera f
• Swedish: bankir (sv) c
• Turkish: bankacı (tr)
• Vietnamese: chủ ngân hàng
• Yiddish: באַנקיר‏‎ m (bankir), באַנקירער‏‎ m (bankirer)

money changer

• Finnish: rahanvaihtaja
• Greek: αργυραμοιβός (el) m (argyramoivós)

• Romanian: zaraf (ro) m

dealer

• Albanian: tregtar (sq)
• Catalan: banquer m
• Czech: bankéř (cs) m
• Finnish: pelinhoitaja, pankki (fi)
• Irish: baincéir m, scríbín m

• Romanian: bancher (ro) m
• Russian: банкомёт (ru) m (bankomjót)
• Spanish: banquero (es) m, banquera f
• Swedish: bankir (sv) c

stone bench

Etymology 2Edit

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

NounEdit

banker (plural bankers)

1. A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
2. (Britain, dialect) 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.

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3. (mining) A banksman.

TranslationsEdit

vessel

ditcher

Etymology 3Edit

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

NounEdit

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.

SynonymsEdit

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

TranslationsEdit

railway locomotive

• Romanian: locomotivă împingătoare f

AnagramsEdit

• barken

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DanishEdit

NounEdit

banker c pl

1. indefinite plural of bank

VerbEdit

banker

1. present tense of banke

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LadinoEdit

NounEdit

banker m (Latin spelling)

1. banker

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

NounEdit

banker m pl

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

VerbEdit

banker

1. present tense of banke

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SwedishEdit

NounEdit

banker

1. indefinite plural of bank.