bankerとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

bank +‎ -er, after French banquier.

名詞

banker (複数形 bankers)

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. The dealer in a casino, or one who keeps the bank in a banking game.
3. (obsolete) A money changer.
4. The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.

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下位語

• usurer (offering loans, esp. at very high interest); loan shark (independent, offering loans at high interest); saraf (early modern Middle East & India); shroff (early modern India & SE Asia)

派生語

関連する語

• bank
• banking

語源 2

From bank (“an elevation, または rising ground”) + +‎ -er

名詞

banker (複数形 bankers)

1. A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
2. (Britain, dialect) A ditcher; a drain digger.
   • 1941, Ernestine Hill, My Love Must Wait, A&R Classics 2013, p. 6:

     But this was no storm, the bankers could have told him. It was break of the year.

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3. (mining) A banksman.

語源 3

From bank (“an incline または hill”) +‎ -er.

名詞

banker (複数形 bankers)

1. (rail transport, Britain, Australia) A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.
   • 1960 May, “Motive Power Miscellany: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 314:

     Because of a shortage of W.R. pannier tanks, two "E6" 0-6-2 tanks, Nos. 32410/5, were engaged as bankers on the Folkestone Harbour branch at the beginning of March; [...].

同意語

• (railway locomotive): bank engine (英国用法), helper, helper engine (米国用法)