BANKER, com. law. A banker 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
1. 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.
Source: Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
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Banker \Bank"er\ (b[a^][ng]k"[~e]r), 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.
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2. A money changer. [Obs.]
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3. The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.
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4. A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of
Newfoundland. --Crabb. --J. Q. Adams.
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5. A ditcher; a drain digger. [Prov. Eng.]
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6. The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work.
--Weale.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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45 Moby Thesaurus words for "banker":
Shylock, bank clerk, bank manager, bank officer, bank president,
banking executive, baron, big boss, big businessman, bill broker,
business leader, businessman, cambist, captain of industry,
cashier, director, discounter, enterpriser, entrepreneur,
financier, industrialist, investment banker, king, lender,
little businessman, loan officer, loan shark, loaner, magnate,
man of commerce, manager, money broker, money changer,
money dealer, moneylender, moneymonger, mortgage holder, mortgagee,
note broker, pawnbroker, teller, top executive, trust officer,
tycoon, usurer
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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