Banker

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈbæŋkÉ™(r)/
• Rhymes: -æŋkÉ™(r)

From bank + -er, after French banquier

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.
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.

Related terms

• bankership
• banking

From bank (An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea) + -er

Full definition of banker

Noun

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

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

Noun

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

Synonyms

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