: a person or boat employed in the cod fishery on the Newfoundland banks
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Even Alain’s relative bohemia of a furnished sublet is absurdly comfortable; if Jean’s circle of bankers and politicians reeks of money, Alain’s artistic one is perfumed by it.—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2024 The trial focused on how Trump’s assets were valued on financial statements that went to bankers and insurers to get loans and deals.—Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2024 The trial focused on how Trump's assets were valued on financial statements that went to bankers and insurers to get loans and deals.—Michael R. Sisak and Jennifer Peltz, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2024 At the end of 2023, many economists and bankers were predicting that the Federal Reserve (Fed) would cut rates several times over the course of 2024, leading to lower mortgage and credit card card rates, and overall, greater economic activity.—Paul Weinstein Jr., Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024 Once the gold arrives, Custer said, the swindlers need only to persuade their targets to hand it over — a strategy that avoids the victim having to physically go into a bank to withdraw money, which can raise the suspicions of alert tellers and bankers.—Dan Morse, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024 His father, William, was a banker, and his mother, Alice (Stagg) Jorgensen, was an obstetrics nurse.—Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024 From the 1890s to the 1910s, socialist populist movements flourished that sought to protect farmers and factory workers from industrialists, bankers, and the corrupt elite.—TIME, 18 Mar. 2024 Mnuchin was a Goldman Sachs banker before becoming a Hollywood financier, backing films like The Lego Movie, Mad Max: Fury Road and a number of DC Comics titles at Warner Bros.—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2024
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