Associations to the word «Banker»

Wiktionary

BANKER, 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.
BANKER, noun. (obsolete) A money changer.
BANKER, noun. The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.
BANKER, noun. The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.
BANKER, noun. A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
BANKER, noun. (UK) (dialect) A ditcher; a drain digger.
BANKER, 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.
BANKER, noun. A native or resident of the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
BANKER, noun. A Banker horse, a feral horse from the islands of North Carolina's Outer Banks.
BANKER LAMP, noun. Alternative form of banker's lamp

Dictionary definition

BANKER, noun. A financier who owns or is an executive in a bank.
BANKER, noun. The person in charge of the bank in a gambling game.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats