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発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA: /ˈbæŋkə/
• (General American, without æ-raising) IPA: /ˈbæŋkɚ/
  • (æ-raising) IPA: /ˈbeɪ̯ŋkɚ/, /ˈbɛ̃ŋkɚ/
• 韻: -æŋkə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: ban‧ker

語源 1

From bank +‎ -er, after French banquier.

名詞

banker (plural 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.
   • 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:

     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.

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.
   • 1895, Thomas Hardy, “II-ii”, in Jude the Obscure, London: Osgood:

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

5. (stationery) A type of envelope with a diamond shape or V-flap that opens on the long edge.

   Synonyms: banker's envelope, invitation envelope

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

派生した語

• → German: Banker
• → Punjabi: ਬੈਂਕਰ (baiṅkar)

語源 2

From bank (“an elevation, or rising ground”) +‎ -er (relational noun suffix) or +‎ -er (occupational suffix).

名詞

banker (plural bankers)

1. A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
   • 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

2. (UK, dialect) A ditcher; a drain digger.
   • 1941, Ernestine Hill, My Love Must Wait, A&R Classics, published 2013, page 6:

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

3. (mining) Synonym of browman.
4. (Australia, colloquial) A watercourse filled from bank to bank.

語源 3

From bank on +‎ -er.

名詞

banker (plural bankers)

1. (UK, gambling) A bet that is almost certain to succeed.
2. (UK, by extension) A very safe option.
   • 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 July 2025:

     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.

同意語

• See Thesaurus:sure thing.

語源 4

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

名詞

banker (plural bankers)

1. (rail transport, British, Australia) A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.
   • 1944 January and February, W. McGowan Gradon, “Forres as a Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 23:

     Between them these engines work passenger trains on the Keith line, and also act as bankers up to Dava when required.

   • 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; [...].

   Synonyms: bank engine, banking engine (UK), helper, helper engine (US)

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アナグラム

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