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How to use banker in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Banker means 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. Example: “He's not for the company; he's in bed with the investment bankers.”

Examples of banker by meaning

nounA ditcher; a drain digger.

  • But this was no storm, the bankers could have told him.1941, Ernestine Hill, My Love Must Wait, A&R Classics, published 2013, page 6

nounA very safe option.

  • When Jose came to Manchester United, two and a half years ago, this was the no-brainer, the banker, the one which couldn't fail.2018 December 19, Gary Neville, quotee, “Gary Neville on The Debate: Manchester United, Jose Mourinho and what's next at Old Trafford”, in...

nounA railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.

  • Between them these engines work passenger trains on the Keith line, and also act as bankers up to Dava when required.1944 January and February, W. McGowan Gradon, “Forres as a Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 23

More sentences with banker

  • He's not for the company; he's in bed with the investment bankers.From the entry in bed with
  • The central bankers viewed these moves as prophylaxis against inflation.From the entry prophylaxis
  • I don't see how anyone with a day job is supposed to deal with them when they keep only bankers' hours.From the entry bankers' hours
  • I refuse to line the pockets of fat-cat bankers.From the entry line someone's pockets
  • He had been a big top performer in his youth, but in a twist of fate he had run away to become an investment banker.From the entry big top
  • He was not the first Northeastern banker to be surprised by what he saw when he stepped off the train into this Western city.From the entry western
  • Bitcoin simply doesn't care what China does, or what bank CEOs say, or what central bankers think.2017 October 20, David Dinkins, “Bitcoin Breaks $6,000 Barrier, Market Cap Now Exceeds $100 Billion”, in Cointelegraph. From the entry honey badger
  • Tobacco-settlement bonds are a tribute both to the inventiveness of bankers and the childlike impatience of politicians.2013 September 7, “Unlucky strike”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2020. From the entry tobacco
  • Wherever there's a regulator beating up on a banker, I'll be there."2012, Gary Weiss, Ayn Rand Nation: The Hidden Struggle for America's Soul, St. Martin's Press. From the entry Tom Joad
  • Li, a banker with a doctorate in statistics who was then at RiskMetrics, part of J.2009 March 10, Dennis Overbye, “Mathematical Model and the Mortgage Mess”, in New York Times. From the entry copula
  • The government maintains that if its regulations are too stiff, British bankers will leave the country.2009 September 7, George Monbiot, The Guardian. From the entry depart
  • The BIS remains a global club for central bankers, a Hogwarts for financial wizards.2009, Kevin Mellyn, Financial Market Meltdown: Everything You Need to Know to Understand and Survive the Global Credit Crisis, ABC-CLIO…. From the entry Hogwarts
  • Even the National Provincial Bank, the Company's bankers, believed that he had outserved his time.2006, William Roger Louis, Ends of British imperialism, page 763. From the entry outserve
  • It's a curious mix: weatherworn miners, fresh faced bankers, and a couple of g-stringed skimpies.2000, Australian Journal of Mining, page 2. From the entry skimpy
  • It continues to pin bankers in an overregulated and overrestrained structure and adds considerable microregulatory imperatives.1992, Proceedings of a Conference on Bank Structure and Competition. From the entry overrestrained
  • Other bankers are dubbing themselves ninja, modern-day descendants of the superspies of 17th century samurai houses.1987 August 3, Business Week, page 40. From the entry ninja
  • The town men, little bankers, hated Okies because there was nothing to gain from them.1939 April 14, John Steinbeck, chapter 19, in The Grapes of Wrath, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC, page 242. From the entry admiration
  • Bolsheviki had repudiated the four-billion-dollar debt which the government of the Tsar had contracted with the bankers.1919, Upton Sinclair, chapter 15, in Jimmie Higgins. From the entry debt
  • First comes the Plutocracy, which is composed of wealthy bankers, railway magnates, corporation directors, and trust magnates.1908 February 19, Jack London, chapter 9, in The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC. From the entry plutocracy
  • The men from Ningpo who'd moved to Shanghai and created banking empires are just the type of bankers Jack likes: tight-lipped.2018, Paul French, City of Devils, Picador, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 51. From the entry Ningpo
  • Nowadays, handwritings are easily facsimilied, when even bankers find it hard to distinguish between their own notes and counterfeit ones.2016, Émile Gaboriau, Caught in the Net, →ISBN. From the entry facsimilied
  • The rumpalicious Middleton, who split with her banker beau three weeks ago, is now canoodling with a new man.2011 November 29, Michael Sneed, “Turnabout? Cardinal George given communion — by Rev. Pfleger”, in Chicago Sun-Times. From the entry rumpalicious
  • Why wouldn’t populist jealousy be directed against bankers or CEOs, whose gluttony dwarfs the salaries and perks of any unionized workers?2011 April 9, Ken Lewenza, “Counterpoint: Fury of poor would erupt without unions”, in National Post, volume 13, number 138, Toronto…. From the entry garbage-collector
  • Significant monies are wasted each week as bankers leave taxis outside, waiting on the clock, while they finish their lunches.2005 April 22, “Cost Controls, Fine—But THAT'S Ridiculous”, in hereisthecity.com, UK, retrieved 20 Apr 2009. From the entry on the clock
  • Shoulder to shoulder were cocaine cowboys, thousand-dollar-a-night call girls, arms merchants, DEA agents, spies, squint-eyed bankers, and beribboned Panamanian military thugs.2004, Chuck Pfarrer, Warrior Soul: The Memoir Of A Navy Seal, page 118. From the entry cocaine cowboy
  • Pascal's estate was contentiously split between his ex-wife and his nonwife, with artistic decisions ultimately empowered to a banker.2001, Steven Suskin, Broadway Yearbook, 1999-2000. From the entry ex-wife
  • He and Chuck met in the street often, the engineer standing at attention, the banker relaxing at the wheel.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections. From the entry golfwear
  • Bendell was describing was already happening to many people — just not yet to the Western academics, bankers and journalists whose interests he had piqued.2020 December 26, Jonah E. Bromwich, “The Darkest Timeline”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry deep adaptation
  • But Bloom has a bit of Zürich in him too – modernist multi-culti Zürich, the Zürich of the flâneur as well as the banker.2016, Padraig Rooney, The Gilded Châlet, page 110. From the entry multiculti
  • For a long time, Hong Kong’s frenetic night life scene has centered on fancy hotel bars and glitzy clubs swarmed with corporate bankers.2013 September 25, Aric Chen, “A Hong Kong Neighborhood That’s a Lot Like Brooklyn”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from…. From the entry Causeway Bay
  • For most Americans, big bonuses and corporate jets and office remodelings become a kind of stand-in for the real sins of the bankers.2009 January 31, Joe Nocera, “It’s Not the Bonus Money. It’s the Principle.”, in New York Times. From the entry remodeling
  • No competent banker would make a NINJA loan unless he was faced with a Governmental Carrot, a Governmental Stick, or a combination of both.2008, FL Turbo, “OT - Do you really think you can trust Bush?”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet). From the entry ninja loan
  • And what about moral hazard—or concern that protecting the system, however errant the behaviour of certain bankers, will encourage more folly in the future?2008 October 4, William Keegan, “Moral hazard? It's just another danger along the capitalist way”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry moral hazard
  • The old adage is that a banker is someone who lends you an umbrella, then asks for it back when it is raining.2008 May 22, Megan McArdle, “Bank on it”, in The Atlantic. From the entry home truth
  • Some of the countries of Eastern Europe had already acceded to all the privatization and austerity measures drawn up by imperialist bankers.2007 November 18, Leslie Feinberg, “'Big lie' and breakup of Yugoslavia”, in Workers World. From the entry accede
  • Despite their novelty, the arithmetics just described could not fill all the needs of wholesale merchants, bankers, and others with extensive commercial activity.1960, Journal of the History of Ideas, volume 21. From the entry reckonmaster
  • Not for long, of course, for already stealing upon one's hearing would be the staccato bark and thrust of the banker bringing up the rear.1953 December, Henry Maxwell, “The Folkestone Harbour Branch: Some Evocations”, in Railway Magazine, page 809. From the entry staccato

Meaning of banker

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun The dealer in a casino, or one who keeps the bank in a banking game.
  3. noun A money changer.

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Questions about banker in a sentence

How do you use banker in a sentence?
Banker is used as a noun. For example: “He's not for the company; he's in bed with the investment bankers.”
What is a short sentence with banker?
“I refuse to line the pockets of fat-cat bankers.”
What does banker mean?
Banker means 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.

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