banker

1 of 2

noun (1)

bank·​er ˈbaŋ-kər 

1

: one that engages in the business of banking

2

: the player who keeps the bank in various games

bankerly

ˈbaŋ-kər-lē 

adjective

banker

2 of 2

noun (2)

: a person or boat employed in the cod fishery on the Newfoundland banks

Examples of banker in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein's banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan. —Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 14 June 2026

Goldman bankers can point to the success of the SpaceX deal as part of their pitch to Anthropic and OpenAI as those companies prepare to come public. —Jeff Marks, CNBC, 12 June 2026

Some of those bankers (and their lawyers) likely found their way to Madison Square Garden, where the price for mingling with celebrities courtside flew above $100,000 on secondary markets. —Max Chafkin, Bloomberg, 12 June 2026

Founded in 2003 by conceptual artist Michael Callies, a graduate of Frankfurt’s Stadelschüle, and former banker Stephan Jaax, dépendance resisted the explosive growth model pursued by many other galleries at the dawn of the millennium. —News Desk, Artforum, 11 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

Noun (1)

circa 1671, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Noun (2)

1654, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing banker

• banker's acceptance

Rhymes for banker

• anchor
• anker
• canker
• hanker
• rancor
• shanker
• tanker

Kids Definition

banker

noun

bank·​er

ˈbaŋ-kər

: a person who is engaged in the business of a bank