Lexic.us

Definition of Banker

1. Noun. A financier who owns or is an executive in a bank.

Definition of Banker

1. n. 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.

Definition of Banker

1. Noun. 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. ¹

2. Noun. A money changer. ¹

3. Noun. The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house. ¹

4. Noun. The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work. ¹

5. Noun. A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland. ¹

6. Noun. A ditcher; a drain digger. ¹

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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Banker

1. one who works in a bank [n -S] : BANKERLY [adj]

Medical Definition of Banker

1. 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. A money changer. 3. The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house. 4. A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland. 5. A ditcher; a drain digger. 6. The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work. See: the nouns Bank and the verbs derived from them. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Banker

Literary usage of Banker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and by John Barnard Byles, Maurice Barnard Byles, Walter John Barnard Byles (1899)
"60, to a banker paying in good faith, and in the ordinary course of business a bill of ... A banker's draft payable to order is now very commonly used for ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"Bills, remitted by a Country Bank to their banker in London, remaining at his bankruptcy in his hands un.r due, or unapplied according to the authority ..."

3. The Financial Policy of Corporations by Arthur Stone Dewing (1920)
"CHAPTER II THE banker'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROMOTION The position of the investment banker, ; Contrast between investment banker and institutional banker, ..."

4. A Practical Treatise of the Law of Evidence, and Digest of Proofs, in Civil by Thomas Starkie (1891)
"And though a customer who pays bills into a banker's hands lias a right to ... Proof that the bills were in the hands of the banker, indorsed by the ..."

5. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1855)
"the laws of eighteen hundred and forty four are hereby extended and declared to be applicable to every individual banker who is now doing business, ..."

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