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. obsoleteA 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. stationeryA type of envelope with a diamond shape or V-flap that opens on the long edge.

   Synonyms: banker's envelope, invitation envelope

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

2. UKdialectalA ditcher; a drain digger.

   But this was no storm, the bankers could have told him. It was break of the year.

   1941, Ernestine Hill, My Love Must Wait, A&R Classics, published 2013, page 6

3. businessSynonym of browman.

   Synonyms: browman

4. AustraliacolloquialA watercourse filled from bank to bank.

plural bankers

1. UKgamblingA bet that is almost certain to succeed.
2. UKbroadlyA 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. The one who had never failed.

   2018 December 19, Gary Neville, quotee, “Gary Neville on The Debate: Manchester United, Jose Mourinho and what's next at Old Trafford”, in Sky Sports, retrieved 23 Jul 2025

plural bankers

1. AustraliaUKrail transportA 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

   1 more example

   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; [...].

   1960 May, “Motive Power Miscellany: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 314

   Synonyms: bank engine, banking engine, helper, helper engine

plural Bankers

1. A native or resident of the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

   The Outer Banks, long "North Carolina's best kept secret," were in the midst of development, with newcomers arriving, condominiums rising, roads jammed, the Bankers and a way of life bending like dune grass before a great wind.

   1987 October, Charles E. Cobb, Jr., “North Carolina's Outer Banks”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 490

2. A Banker horse, a feral horse from the islands of North Carolina's Outer Banks.

   Synonyms: Outer Banker

1. A barangay of Kabasalan, Zamboanga Sibugay, Philippines.