banker

CEFRC1

/ˈbæŋkəː/

noun

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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The dealer in a casino, or one who keeps the bank in a banking game.
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.
The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.

In context

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
[T]he new traceries, mullions, transoms, shafts, pinnacles, and battlements standing on the bankers half worked[.]
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.

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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
[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
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
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
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

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From bank + -er, after French banquier.