bankers

Noun (1)

banker (plural bankers)

1. 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.
   • 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.1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC
2. The dealer in a casino, or one who keeps the bank in a banking game.
3. (obsolete) A money changer.
4. The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.
   • [T]he new traceries, mullions, transoms, shafts, pinnacles, and battlements standing on the bankers half worked[.]1895, Thomas Hardy, “II-ii”, in Jude the Obscure, London: Osgood
5. (stationery) A type of envelope with a diamond shape or V-flap that opens on the long edge.

   Synonyms:

   banker's envelope, invitation envelope

Noun (2)

banker (plural bankers)

1. A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
   • May 20 1815, John Quincy Adams, letter to a merchant
     I think the 584 Bankers may be put down 36,540 tons, navigated by 4,627 men and boys

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