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BANKER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The person in charge of the bank in a gambling game

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("banker" is a kind of...):

money dealer; money handler (a person who receives or invests or pays out money)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A financier who owns or is an executive in a bank

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("banker" is a kind of...):

financier; moneyman (a person skilled in large scale financial transactions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "banker"):

bank clerk; cashier; teller (an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money)

Instance hyponyms:

Rothschild (any of family of powerful Jewish bankers in Europe)

Derivation:

bank (be in the banking business)

Credits

 Context examples: 

One of the letters was directed to Samuel F. Billington, No. 7, The Crescent, Whitby, another to Herr Leutner, Varna; the third was to Coutts & Co., London, and the fourth to Herren Klopstock & Billreuth, bankers, Buda-Pesth.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But, Mrs. Heep gave him little trouble; for she not only returned with the deed, but with the box in which it was, where we found a banker's book and some other papers that were afterwards serviceable.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I might have sold it again, the next day, for more than I gave: but, with regard to the purchase-money, I might have been very unfortunate indeed; for the stocks were at that time so low, that if I had not happened to have the necessary sum in my banker's hands, I must have sold out to very great loss.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

As I turn over the pages, I see my notes upon the repulsive story of the red leech and the terrible death of Crosby, the banker.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Is it possible?” gasped the banker.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But I don’t believe in bankers.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Alternatively, you may talk to your real estate broker or banker about a mortgage or home improvement loan, or your lawyer if you are mentioned in a will and may get an inheritance.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I will remand the order I despatched to my banker.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

At last we were getting something positive, and yet it seemed a long gap between an absconding banker and Captain Peter Carey pinned against the wall with one of his own harpoons.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The banker’s dressing-room was a plainly furnished little chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)