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English Dictionary: Banker by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
banker
n
  1. a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank
  2. the person in charge of the bank in a gambling game
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
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