# banker
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈbæŋkə(ɹ)/
* (US) IPA: /ˈbæŋkɚ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -æŋkə(ɹ)

### Etymology 1

From bank +‎ -er, after French banquier.

#### Noun

banker (plural bankers)
* 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.
** 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC: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.
* The dealer in a casino, or one who keeps the bank in a banking game.
* (obsolete) A money changer.
* The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.
** 1895, Thomas Hardy, “II-ii”, in Jude the Obscure, London: Osgood:[T]he new traceries, mullions, transoms, shafts, pinnacles, and battlements standing on the bankers half worked[.]
* (stationery) A type of envelope with a diamond shape or V-flap that opens on the long edge.
    Synonyms: banker's envelope, invitation envelope

##### Hyponyms

* usurer (offering loans, esp. at very high interest); loan shark (independent, offering loans at high interest); saraf (early modern Middle East & India); shroff (early modern India & SE Asia)

##### Derived terms

* bankerage
* bankerdom
* bankeress
* bankerish
* banker lamp, banker's lamp
* bankerless
* bankerly
* banker's acceptance
* banker's card
* banker's cheque
* banker's dozen
* banker's draft
* banker's envelope
* bankership
* bankers' hours
* banker's lien
* banker's order
* bankers' rounding
* bankster
* biobanker
* city banker
* cupboard banker
* investment banker
* merchant banker
* nonbanker
* private investment banker
* Russian Banker
* shadow banker
* zombie banker

##### Related terms

* bank
* banking

##### Descendants

* → German: Banker
* → Punjabi: ਬੈਂਕਰ (baiṅkar)

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From bank (“an elevation, or rising ground”) +‎ -er (relational noun suffix) or +‎ -er (occupational suffix).

#### Noun

banker (plural bankers)
* 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
* (UK, dialect) A ditcher; a drain digger.
** 1941, Ernestine Hill, My Love Must Wait, A&R Classics, published 2013, page 6:But this was no storm, the bankers could have told him. It was break of the year.
* (mining) Synonym of browman.
* (Australia, colloquial) A watercourse filled from bank to bank.

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

From bank (“an incline or hill”) +‎ -er.

#### Noun

banker (plural bankers)
* (rail transport, British, Australia) A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.
** 1944 January and February, W. McGowan Gradon, “Forres as a Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 23:Between them these engines work passenger trains on the Keith line, and also act as bankers up to Dava when required.
** 1960 May, “Motive Power Miscellany: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 314:Because of a shortage of W.R. pannier tanks, two "E6" 0-6-2 tanks, Nos. 32410/5, were engaged as bankers on the Folkestone Harbour branch at the beginning of March; [...].

##### Synonyms

* (railway locomotive): bank engine, banking engine (UK), helper, helper engine (US)

##### Translations
### References

* ↑ 1849-1850, John Weale, Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms used in Architecture, Building, and Engineering

### Anagrams

* barken

## Danish
### Noun

banker c pl
* indefinite plural of bank

### Verb

banker
* present of banke

## Ladino
### Noun

banker m
* banker

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

From banke +‎ -er.

#### Noun

banker m (definite singular bankeren, indefinite plural bankere, definite plural bankerne)
* a beater (implement used for beating)

##### Derived terms

* teppebanker

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

banker m pl
* indefinite plural of bank.
* indefinite plural of banke

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

banker
* present of banke

### References

* “banker_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

## Swedish
### Noun

banker
* indefinite plural of bank

### Anagrams

* barken

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بانكر (banḱer), from French banquier.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ban.cɛɾ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

banker (definite accusative bankeri, plural bankerler)
* banker
* (idiomatic) rich person

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
banker
bankerler
definite accusative
bankeri
bankerleri
dative
bankere
bankerlere
locative
bankerde
bankerlerde
ablative
bankerden
bankerlerden
genitive
bankerin
bankerlerin
Predicative forms
singular
plural
1st singular
bankerim
bankerlerim
2nd singular
bankersin
bankerlersin
3rd singular
banker bankerdir
bankerler bankerlerdir
1st plural
bankeriz
bankerleriz
2nd plural
bankersiniz
bankerlersiniz
3rd plural
bankerler
bankerlerdir :