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Banker : (noun)
1: someone who owns or is an executive in a bank
2: the person in charge of the bank in a gambling game
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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BANKER, com. law. ABanker : is one engaged in the business of receiving other
persons money in deposit, to be returned on demand discounting other
persons' notes, and issuing his own for circulation. One who performs the
business usually transacted by a bank. Private bankers are generally not
permitted.
2. The business of bankers is generally performed through the medium of
incorporated banks.
3. A banker may be declared a bankrupt by adverse proceedings against
him. Act of Congress of 19th Aug. 1841. See 1 Atk. 218; 2 H. Bl. 235; 1
Mont. B. L. 12.
4. Among the ancient Romans there were bankers called argentarii, whose
office was to keep registers of contracts between individuals, either to
loan money, or in relation to sales and stipulations. These bankers
frequently agreed with the creditor to pay him the debt due to him by the
debtor. Calvini Lex. Jurid.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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