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banker
1[ bang-ker ]
noun
- a person employed by a bank, especially as an executive or other official.
- Games. the keeper or holder of the bank.
banker
2[ bang-ker ]
banker
3[ bang-ker ]
noun
- a bench or table used by masons for dressing stones or bricks.
banker
1/ ˈbæŋkə /
noun
- a fishing vessel of Newfoundland
- a fisherman in such a vessel
- informal.a stream almost overflowing its banks (esp in the phrase run a banker )
- Also calledbank engine a locomotive that is used to help a heavy train up a steep gradient
banker
2/ ˈbæŋkə /
noun
- a person who owns or is an executive in a bank
- an official or player in charge of the bank in any of various games, esp gambling games
- a result that has been forecast identically in a series of entries on a football pool coupon
- a person or thing that appears certain to win or be successful
banker
3/ ˈbæŋkə /
noun
- a craftsman's workbench
- a timber board used as a base for mixing building materials
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Example Sentences
In 1903, he married Hortense Mitchell, the daughter of a Chicago banker.
One of their collectors was the New York banker, Robert Lehman.
The series began with protagonist, Neil Truman, an investment banker, discovering his wife having sex with a male escort.
She said she had been single since a relationship ended two-and-a-half years before with [banker and socialite] Orin Lehman.
The financial daily Les Echos quipped the investment banker was "buying low."
But before he could even sow that year's crop, he would have to see a certain banker who lived in Nebraska.
Three more coups are played, each of which the banker, that is to say Haggard, wins.
The seizure was made in legal form; the banker, who lost nothing, was bound to comply with it.
Daughter of the banker Adolphus of Manheim, greatly spoiled by her parents.
So they have a new entrance—very handsome conservatory—flowers—the banker does things in style.
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