What's the difference between banker and barker?

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.

Barker


Definition:

  • (n.) An animal that barks; hence, any one who clamors unreasonably.
  • (n.) One who stands at the doors of shops to urg/ passers by to make purchases.
  • (n.) A pistol.
  • (n.) The spotted redshank.
  • (n.) One who strips trees of their bark.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "While I wouldn't necessarily concur with all the specific recommendations of the report," Barker said, "there is one clear message that I do agree with: that solar has far more potential than has previously been thought."
  • (2) Most significantly, it has delegated too much to the Bank of England, which next year will for the first time have a governor appointed for an eight-year term, into a very powerful unelected role," Barker said.
  • (3) The new companies to be given ministerial buddies – but not yet publicly disclosed – include the property firms Atkins and Balfour Beatty, which have been paired with climate change minister Greg Barker, who is overseeing work on the government's green deal and zero-carbon homes programmes.
  • (4) It was on the set of The Frost Report that production staff began to refer to Barker and Corbett as "the two Ronnies", while the writing team included Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, and Eric Idle – every Monty Python member bar Terry Gilliam – as well as Marty Feldman and lead writer Antony Jay, who went on to create Yes, Minister.
  • (5) Microgeneration like home wind and solar panels will not be covered by the project, but could be marketed by selling companies alongside the core efficiency measures, said Barker.
  • (6) The rates "will come down", Barker confirmed when we spoke last week.
  • (7) Each week, Frost's script, the sketches and topical songs would riff on a single theme - for example class, when John Cleese, Corbett and Barker appeared in one of the most famous sketches in the annals of British comedy.
  • (8) Barker also announced a new comedy, Nurse, based on the eponymous BBC Radio 4 series.
  • (9) At the moment the club needs a long term strategy but has an owner with a short term view - Al Reading It’s been one huge wet lettuce of a season Ben Barker, Reading fan It’s been one huge wet lettuce of a season.
  • (10) Speaking about Bacon, Barker said: “[He] speaks to the soul.
  • (11) The Shonan Maru No 2 tailed the Bob Barker, a Sea Shepherd vessel, for two days earlier this week, according to the group.
  • (12) As Greg Barker told me last week , "the focus of the current scheme needs to be on the small scale, to get the maximum number of installations".
  • (13) It is a far cry from Barker's promise of: "A radical new approach to home energy improvement, moving away from pepper potting individual measures to whole house or property solutions."
  • (14) He beat his fellow MSP, Richard Barker, and Glasgow city council leader, Gordon Matheson.
  • (15) Mike Reiss (@MikeReiss) Patriots inactives: DL Sopoaga, CB Green, G Barker, TE Williams, DE Bequette, WR Thompkins, LB Beauharnais.
  • (16) Energy and climate change minister Greg Barker welcomed an increase in the number of people having their homes assessed for the green deal .
  • (17) The interim report from the five-strong Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England , chaired by Kate Barker, a former Bank of England economist, has been published as all three main parties decide how to approach the issue of social care in their election manifestos.
  • (18) Read the biographies - Winifred Gérin, Juliet Barker and, in particular, Lucasta Miller - and you can begin to discern a more formidable woman who could cope with the world rather better than the image of the doomed Emily might suggest.
  • (19) (1966), worked with Simpson, Arnold Wesker and John Arden , and, having staged Howard Barker ’s Cheek in 1970, collaborated with him in 1986 on the audacious Women Beware Women, adapting Middleton’s Jacobean original with poisonous puritanism.
  • (20) Following the physiological investigation, the muscle was fixed and stained according to the method of Barker and Ip (J.