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Definitions: Banker |
BankerNoun1. Someone who owns or is an executive in a bank. 2. The person in charge of the bank in a gambling game. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "banker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Note: Banker \Bank"er\, noun[See the nouns Bank and the verbs derived from them.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Finance | In the strict sense, a private financer who carries on banking operations. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Aligns dimension stone on bed of timbers preparatory to grinding, polishing, sawing, or chipping: Builds bed of timbers on flatcar or bed of machine. Signals OVERHEAD CRANE OPERATOR (any industry) 921.663-010 to lower stone and guides stone onto timber bed, aligning stone with arm of polishing machine, surfacing machine, or saw. Determines when stone is level, using straightedge and spirit level. Signals crane operator to lift stone, or pries up stone with crowbar and levels stone by inserting or hammering wedges and blocks between stone and timbers. May assist crane operator to position grinding or polishing wheel on stone. May measure and mark blocks for cutting, using rule, straightedge, and crayon. May spread abrasive material over surface of stone. May shovel abrasive material from mill into storage hopper after grinding and polishing processes. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Cards, card games; whist, rubber; round game; loo, cribbage, besique, euchre, drole, ecarte, picquet, allfours, quadrille, omber, reverse, Pope Joan, commit; boston, boaston; blackjack, twenty-one, vingtun; quinze, thirty-one, put, speculation, connections, brag, cassino, lottery, commerce, snip-snap-snoren, lift smoke, blind hookey, Polish bank, Earl of Coventry, Napoleon, patience, pairs; banker; blind poker, draw poker, straight poker, stud poker; bluff, bridge, bridge whist; lotto, monte, three-card monte, nap, penny-ante, poker, reversis, squeezers, old maid, fright, beggar-my-neighbor; baccarat. |
Merchant | Money broker, money changer, money lender; cambist, usurer, moneyer, banker. |
Treasurer | Noun: treasurer; bursar, bursary; purser, purse bearer; cash keeper, banker; depositary; questor, receiver, steward, trustee, accountant, Accountant General, almoner, liquidator, paymaster, cashier, teller; cambist; money changer; (merchant). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Banker |
| English words defined with "banker": baccarat, bank, Bank check, Bankeress ♦ Cambist, chemin de fer ♦ embezzled ♦ investment banker ♦ killer bee ♦ misappropriated ♦ Shroff ♦ underwriter. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "banker": banker off, Borrowing ♦ Gervais ♦ Hair, Hairs ♦ Mæcenas, Misers, mortgage banker ♦ Nails driven into Cottage Walls ♦ rarebit ♦ Stephens, stone banker. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Banker" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (banker), Swedish (banks), Turkish (bank clerk, bank official, banker, gnome). |
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Screenplays | Named after Lorenzo Tonti, a Neapolitan banker. (The Wrong Box; writing credit: Larry Gelbart; Lloyd Osbourne) Show them to any Swiss banker, he'll laugh in your face. (Funeral in Berlin; writing credit: Len Deighton; Evan Jones) Pres is a banker, not a traitor. (Jezebel; writing credit: Owen Davis; Clements Ripley) | |
Lyrics | The butcher, the banker, the drummer and then ("Everyday People"; performing artist: Sly & The Family Stone) | |
Clever | A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. (references; author: Mark Twain) Money: A businessman earns it, an economist learns it, a banker turns it, a politician burns it, and a wise man spurns it. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hansuli Banker Upakatha (1962) En Fremmed banker på (1959) So You Want to Be a Banker (1954) | |
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Jim Tully | The lawyer and the doctor and other professional men have often a touch of civilization. The banker and the merchant seldom. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Finally, talk to your banker. (references) | |
Financing is critical, and American exporters should consider consulting with their banker concerning lines of credit finance, loans, insurance and guarantees. (references) | ||
Exporters are encouraged to consult with their banker and the Small Business Administration (Export Working Capital), concerning lines of credit finance, loans, insurance, and guarantees. (references) | ||
Economic History | Fiji | Former banker Laisenia Qarase was named interim prime minister and head of the interim civilian government by the military and Great Council of Chiefs in July. (references) |
Macau | Edmund Ho, a community leader and banker, is the first China-appointed chief executive of the Macau SAR, having replaced General de Rocha Viera on December 20th 1999. (references) | |
Human Rights | Russia | For example, on October 30, an unknown person fatally shot the Vice Speaker of the Dagestani Parliament Arsen Kammayev and a prominent local banker near the Vice Speaker's home. (references) |
Political Economy | Panama | The incipient "Popular Party", part of opposition, marginally led by prominent banker and former presidential candidate Alberto Vallarino, includes Christian Democrats as well as former Arnulfistas who supported Vallarino's candidacy. (references) |
Luxembourg | Already serving as the banker for large numbers of clients from surrounding countries, Luxembourg now harbors ambitions to be home to their pension funds, which might help to balance the downturn in the banks' earnings from domestic operations after the introduction of the Euro. (references) | |
Trade | Ireland | In addition, it acts as adviser and banker to the Irish government. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RAREBIT, n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau a la financiere is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | This Nation is the world's foremost manufacturer, farmer, banker, consumer, and exporter. |
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| "Banker" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.67% of the time. "Banker" is used about 599 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.67% | 561 | 11,166 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.33% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Total | 100.00% | 599 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "banker" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Banker | Last name | 2,000 | 7,499 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "banker": international banker ♦ investment banker ♦ lead banker. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "banker": banker-accountants, Banker-v-the. | |
Ending with "banker": ex-banker, merchant-banker, non-banker. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
coldwell banker | 17,348 |
banker | 353 |
investment banker | 211 |
american banker | 195 |
mortgage banker | 169 |
banker life | 163 |
banker.com future | 162 |
banker life and casualty | 159 |
banker mortgage premier | 155 |
banker trust | 138 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "banker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | bankier (bank clerk, bank manager, bank official). (various references) | |
Albanian | bankier (lombard), peshkatar (angler, Fisher, fisherman, shoreman). (various references) | |
Arabic | صاحب البنك, المصرفي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | зидарски тезгях, банкер (lombard, money-agent). (various references) | |
Chamorro | bankeru. (various references) | |
Chinese | 銀行家 , "行家. (various references) | |
Cornish | arghanser. (various references) | |
Croatian | bankar. (various references) | |
Czech | bankéř, penìžník. (various references) | |
Danish | bankier, plade til blanding af mørtel. (various references) | |
Dutch | bankier (bank manager). (various references) | |
Esperanto | bankiero, bankestro (bank manager). (various references) | |
Farsi | صراف (Moneychanger, Usurer), بانک دار. (various references) | |
Finnish | pankkiiri. (various references) | |
French | banquier (bank clerk, bank manager, bank official). (various references) | |
German | Bankier (bank clerk, bank manager, bank official, banker's trade), bankhalter (bankers). (various references) | |
Greek | τραπεζίτης (molar). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ב קאי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | bankár (financier, money-agent, tally). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bankir (money lender), direktur bank. (various references) | |
Italian | banchiere (bank clerk, bank official). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 銀行家 , 銀行" (bank employee), バロック音楽 (advance, ballon d essai, Bangkok, banjo, bank, banquet, banshee, bantam, barometer, baron, Baroque music, bun, bungalow, bunker, van, Van Allen, Vancouver). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎ""うか, ぎ""うい" (bank employee), バンカー (bunker). (various references) | |
Korean | 은행가. (various references) | |
Manx | banceyr. (various references) | |
Papiamen | bankero (bank clerk, bank official). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ankerbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | banqueiro (bank clerk, bank manager, bank official, drawer). (various references) | |
Romanian | bancher (financier, gold-bug). (various references) | |
Romansch | banchier. (various references) | |
Russian | судно (bedpan, craft, hovercraft, night-chair, night-stool, ship, ship in commission, ship in distress, vessel, water craft, water-craft), банкир (lombard, money-agent). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bankar (shroff). (various references) | |
Spanish | banquero (bank manager). (various references) | |
Swedish | bankir (bank clerk, bank official). (various references) | |
Turkish | bankocu, banker (bank clerk, bank official, gnome), bankacı. (various references) | |
Ukranian | службовець банку, риболовне судно (fisherman), землекоп (digger, excavator, navvy), банкірський дім, банкір, банкомет. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thợ đấu, chủ ngân h ng (shroff). (various references) | |
Welsh | bancwr, ariannydd. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | argentario, argentarius. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "banker": bankerly, bankers. (additional references) | |
Words containing "banker": mountebankeries, mountebankery. (additional references) | |
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"Banker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bakero, Bancario, Banctec, baneer, baner, banerji, banka, Banken, Bankim, banko, bankses, Banksey, Banska, basker, Bayker, Behnke, Bencey, Benkei, benkert, Benzer, Bhancair, Binka, bonker, brancker, Branka, kanker. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "banker" (pronounced ba"ngker) |
| 4 | -a" ng k er | anchor, canker, danker, hanker, rancor, ranker, tanker. |
| 3 | -ng k er | bunker, clunker, conquer, drinker, Dunker, freethinker, hunker, junker, linker, pinker, plunker, reconquer, sinker, supertanker, thinker, tinker, winker, yonker, younker. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-k-n-r" | |
-1 letter: baker, brake, brank, break, kebar. | |
-2 letters: bake, bane, bank, bare, bark, barn, beak, bean, bear, brae, bran, bren, earn, kane, karn, kbar, kerb, kern, knar, nabe, nark, near, rake, rank. | |
-3 letters: ane, arb, are, ark, ban, bar, ben, bra, ear, era, ern, kab, kae, kea, ken, nab, nae, neb, ran, reb. | |
-4 letters: ab, ae, an, ar, ba, be, en, er, ka, na, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-k-n-r" | |
+1 letter: bankers, blanker, bracken, unbrake. | |
+2 letters: bankerly, barnlike, bearskin, bedarken, beraking, brackens, brakeman, brakemen, breaking, ninebark, unbraked, unbrakes. | |
+3 letters: bearskins, bedarkens, benchmark, blackener, breakdown, breakeven, breakings, breakneck, canebrake, debarking, drinkable, embarking, frankable, greenback, interbank, karabiner, newsbreak, ninebarks, prebaking, riverbank, snakebird, superbank, windbreak. | |
+4 letters: backhander, bankrolled, bankroller, bankrupted, barkentine, bedarkened, benchmarks, blackeners, bracketing, breakdowns, breakevens, breakfront, canebrakes, cornerback, drinkables, embarkment, greenbacks, karabiners, linebacker, newsbreaks, overbaking, pawnbroker, ringbarked, riverbanks, shrinkable, snakebirds, superbanks, unworkable, windbreaks. | |
+5 letters: aerobraking, backbencher, backhanders, bankrollers, barkentines, bedarkening, blackhander, breakfronts, cabinetwork, cornerbacks, debarkation, embarkation, embarkments, greenbacker, heartbroken, keyboarding, lawbreaking, linebackers, pawnbrokers, rainbowlike, reembarking, tiebreaking, unbracketed, unbreakable, undrinkable, unworkables, windbreaker. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 6E 6B 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- -. -.- . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01101110 01101011 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a n k e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 006E 006B 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)366780777184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Quotations: Speeches | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Names: Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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