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banker's ramp

banker's ramp noun: an economic crisis engineered by bankers for political ends.

Noun

banker's ramp (plural banker's ramps)

  1. (UK) An economic crisis engineered by bankers for political ends.
    • The commissions paid on this transaction were high and gave rise to grumblings in Great Britain about a “banker's ramp.”1990, Randall Bennett Woods, A Changing of the Guard: Anglo-American Relations, 1941-1946, page 409
    • But over the course of the last weekend before the 1997 election, Brown concluded, 'What a release an independent Bank of England would be – a release from a “banker's ramp”!'2020, Harold James, Making a Modern Central Bank: The Bank of England 1979–2003, page 410

Forms of banker's ramp

pluralbanker's ramps

Questions about banker's ramp

What does banker's ramp mean?
Banker's ramp means an economic crisis engineered by bankers for political ends.
What part of speech is banker's ramp?
Banker's ramp is a noun.
What is the plural of banker's ramp?
The plural of banker's ramp is banker's ramps.

Words near banker's ramp in the dictionary

  1. banker's lamps
  2. banker's lien
  3. banker's liens
  4. banker's order
  5. banker's orders
  6. banker's ramp
  7. bankeraceous
  8. bankerage
  9. bankerages
  10. bankerdom
  11. bankeress

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