banker Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank
  2. noun the person in charge of the bank in a gambling game

WordNet


Bank"er noun
Etymology
See the nouns Bank and the verbs derived from them.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913