(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.
Bunker
Definition:
(n.) A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat.
(n.) A large bin or similar receptacle; as, a coal bunker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Writing in his Daily Telegraph column , Johnson said most Britons wanted “someone to come along with a bunker buster” and kill the man, reported to be British, “as fast as possible”.
(2) While each is moving forward to develop strategies and programs suited to its circumstances, all eschew the bunker mentality that comes to mind in tough times.
(3) In his search for a new economic model for the paper that would take it into a secure digital future, Thompson has been experimenting with innovations that appear to stray from his corporate bunker on the 16th floor of the Times building into the editorial realm.
(4) One newspaper declared that Mohamed had "made a mockery" of the government's claim to protect the public, while another offered a reward for information leading to his capture: "£25k to Find the Burka Bunker" .
(5) Short of holding parliament in a bunker, there are limits to what more can or should sensibly be done.
(6) Bunker-buster bomb reports may mark new stage in Russia's Syrian assault Read more Medics took shelter in the hospital basement during the mid-morning attack, sending calls for aid as they hid until government planes had retreated.
(7) The first time I saw the building - a stark, unapologetically angular silver bunker throwing back the heat of a rather desolate part of Berlin - I was content to register its disturbance without question, submitting to its strategies of oppression and disorientation as a child would.
(8) The Nato secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said 300 sorties since Saturday had destroyed 49 tanks, nine armoured personnel carriers, three anti-aircraft guns and four large ammunition bunkers.
(9) His organisation has been co-operating with WikiLeaks since August and has lent two of its 20 servers, which are located in a former nuclear bunker in Stockholm, to WikiLeaks, he said.
(10) In an interview with the Financial Times this morning, Bradshaw – who replaced Andy Burnham in a cabinet reshuffle last month – said the BBC should "show some leadership" on the issue of sharing the licence fee with other broadcasters, rather than "feel that the bunker is the place that they want to be in".
(11) In one he said he felt he couldn’t see the band again “even if they offered me a private concert in the presidential bunker”.
(12) At least there's now external scrutiny, even if it comes at the risk of its grim commentary exacerbating the bunker mentality of those trying to make it work.
(13) We stand to attention for the Soviet anthem and hoisting of the red flag, and then down we go, into the freezing-cold bunker.
(14) Bradshaw told the FT that a consultation period lasting until early September was "an opportunity for the leadership of the BBC to show some leadership rather than feel that the bunker is the place they want to be in".
(15) Houghton, who is expected to reiterate the military's misgivings about entering the conflict, is expected to tell ministers the UK could assist US forces with cruise missile strikes launched from submarines, warships and aircraft against targets such as command and control bunkers.
(16) Bunker-busting is a dangerous business, but with average monthly incomes in Albania about £200, the lucrative explosions are unlikely to abate soon.
(17) These data are interpreted to suggest that feeding a mixture of HMC, ground and stored in a bunker or silo bag, with DRGS will result in a 3.2% associative effect.
(18) He's probably still blinking in the light following his escape from the BBC Sport Banter Bunker, a lot of things are likely to seem strange to him at the moment.
(19) NHS faces 'humanitarian crisis' as demand rises, British Red Cross warns Read more As pressures grow for NHS trusts to do what they can to minimise their deficits in the coming financial year, they have bunkered down into emergency mode.
(20) "The arms trade in the delta is dominated by Ukrainian and Russian dealers who swap automatic weapons for illegal bunkered oil.