What's the difference between bander and banker?

Bander


Definition:

  • (n.) One banded with others.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Similarly, information on the onset of the disease and exposures in the Forster's tern and double-crested cormorants in Green Bay is uncertain but bird banders did not observe deformities until the 1970s, which corresponds with the onset of high levels of PCB.

Banker


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A money changer.
  • (n.) The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.
  • (n.) A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
  • (n.) A ditcher; a drain digger.
  • (n.) The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I remember talking to an investment banker about what it felt like in the City before the closure of Lehman Brothers.
  • (2) The Cambridge-based couple felt ignored when tried to raise the alarm about the way their business – publisher Zenith – was treated by Lynden Scourfield, the former HBOS banker jailed last week, and David Mills’ Quayside Corporate Services.
  • (3) Private equity millionaires, wealthy hedge fund managers, some of the most successful bankers in financial history – they crowded into Cavendish’s Georgian offices.
  • (4) "I'm not a career banker ... and given I was reputationally undamaged, I got a lot of calls [at that time]."
  • (5) For example, the Bank of England was nationalised in 1946, but remained in effect the voice of merchant bankers in the City.
  • (6) Dealers speculated that Facebook's army of bankers had stepped in to stop the shares falling below $38, a move that would have landed the social network with a public relations disaster on its first day as a public company.
  • (7) But instead, he is going to crack under public anger over the huge amounts senior bankers have been paying themselves.
  • (8) The sense that someone else is running the show – bankers, Europe, multinationals – is no longer the province of the radical left.
  • (9) How ironic it would be, if the bankers came round to the same argument again.
  • (10) Lord Mandelson told bankers today that the one-off tax that will be imposed on their bonuses in today's pre-budget report was not designed to "teach them a lesson".
  • (11) US Banker magazine, which ranked her the fifth most powerful female banker in the US, has quoted her as admitting to preaching a work-life balance but admitting: "I don't have much of one myself."
  • (12) Stockman said much of the $1.6tn spent by the Federal Reserve as part of its QE policy was swallowed by Wall Street and simply made bankers richer.
  • (13) The British Bankers' Association "The commission's proposed options will have to be considered alongside other reforms under way at a national and international level.
  • (14) Until the October 2008 banking crisis there were no restrictions on the way bankers were paid, but rules were devised to try to link payouts to performance when it emerged that banks would still pay bonuses despite receiving taxpayer bailouts.
  • (15) The bankers try to answer without making the company look bad.
  • (16) Consider the open joke that was the repeated European bank stress tests ; the foot-dragging of the central bankers to quell financial panic; the IMF report last week showing that even if Greece took the troika’s medicine it would still be lumbered with “unsustainable” debt .
  • (17) Murrawah Johnson, 20, who is Burragubba’s niece, took time out from revising for her university finals to meet the bankers.
  • (18) But for this to work the political power of the alliance of bankers and lenders has to be broken.
  • (19) The crash exposed shortcomings in standards in regulators almost as bad as in banks.” The Treasury denied it was involved in the review being dropped, although it has been involved in changing some of the tougher rules being used to clamp down on bankers.
  • (20) "It's jam tomorrow for the investors but champagne today for the investment bankers," said another.