merchant banker
- a word derived from merchant bank.
Example Sentences
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A social liberal and multi-millionaire former merchant banker, he has struggled to appeal to conservative voters and only narrowly won a general election in 2016.
From Reuters • Aug. 24, 2018
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, a former merchant banker with a personal fortune estimated at exceeding AU$200 million, said he had told Australia Post Chairman John Stanhope “that remuneration is too high.”
From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2017
Turnbull, a 60-year-old former lawyer and merchant banker known for his moderate views, has long been considered Abbott's chief rival.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2015
“Should I send it to your home where your wife will throw it out or to the office where you will put it by your merchant banker book that you never read either?”
From Salon • May 22, 2013
After a while I came to feel a reasonable confidence in assuming that almost any prominent merchant, banker, lawyer, or politician whom I met in the towns owned a plantation in the country.
From Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy by Grayson, David
