banker

Definition

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.

Etymology

From bank + -er, after French banquier.

Example Sentences

• "I have a good banker in this city, but I would not wish to draw upon the house until the time when I shall draw for a round sum."
• "[T]he new traceries, mullions, transoms, shafts, pinnacles, and battlements standing on the bankers half worked[.]"

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