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3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Banker \Bank"er\, n.[See the nouns {Bank} and the verbs derived
from them.]
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.
2. A money changer. [Obs.]
3. The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.
4. A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of
Newfoundland. --Grabb. J. Q. Adams.
5. A ditcher; a drain digger. [Prov. Eng.]
6. The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work.
--Weale.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
banker
n 1: someone who owns or is an executive in a bank
2: the person in charge of the bank in a gambling game
From eng-fra [engfra]:
banker
[bæŋkər]
banquier
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