What's the difference between banker and tanker?

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.

Tanker


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unite, which will have to give seven days' notice before calling a strike after winning approval for industrial action in a ballot of the tanker drivers, is expected to finalise a framework that should allow discussions to begin on Monday.
  • (2) The territories are drying up; there are many communities that have no water, and that are getting water from tanker trucks."
  • (3) A rocket also caused the first serious Israeli casualty – one of eight people hurt when a fuel tanker was hit at a service station in Ashdod, 20 miles north of Gaza.
  • (4) The Unite union, which represents petrol tanker drivers, said there was no threat of a strike over the Easter period and it was focused on talks through the conciliation service Acas.
  • (5) The exposure of drivers of gasoline delivery tankers ranged from 0.08 to 2.37 ppm for personal TWA exposure over the whole workshift.
  • (6) On July 14, 1991, a train tanker car derailed in northern California, spilling 19,000 gallons of the soil fumigant metam sodium (sodium methyldithiocarbamate) into the Sacramento River north of Redding (Figure 1).
  • (7) Tankers are a common sight, carrying Libya's oil exports around the world.
  • (8) About 30 buildings were destroyed after tanker cars laden with oil caught fire in the picturesque lakeside town.
  • (9) But Maude will claim that his strategy of intensifying pressure on the Unite union, which is threatening to hold a fuel tanker strike by 23 April, will have paid off if industrial action is averted.
  • (10) In Iraq and Syria, air strikes are taking out ISIL leaders, heavy weapons, oil tankers, infrastructure.
  • (11) Could the typical journey of the modern pint – a week-long trek from cow to fridge via tankers, processing plants, distribution hubs and supermarkets – be replaced by a bucolic idyll of farmers milking and bottling before delivering, all within 12 hours, as Our Cow Molly does?
  • (12) The Iraqi who drove past the refinery on Thursday said the militants also manned checkpoints around the Beiji facility some 155 miles north of Baghdad, and that a huge fire in one of its tankers was raging.
  • (13) A strong relationship between disability pension due to neuropsychiatric diagnoses and work on tankers was found, especially when restricted to work as a mate on the tankers.
  • (14) Some variation will be caused by the time the garage last bought a tanker of petrol and set its prices: the longer ago it made the purchase, the cheaper the fuel is likely to be.
  • (15) Traffic congestion, dust kicked up by oil tankers and road fatalities are constant features of life here.
  • (16) The bomb this Wednesday morning, hidden inside a sewage tanker, hit at all of these aspects.
  • (17) Whoever used run-of-the-mill bulk carriers or tankers drifted to the lowest-cost country.
  • (18) The government is buying 16 large hard-hulled lifeboats, similar to those found on oil tankers and cruise ships, to be used to send asylum seekers back towards Indonesia if their own vessel is unseaworthy, according to Fairfax Media reports published on Wednesday .
  • (19) A spokesman for Pritchard-Gordon Tankers said two men had been hit by the wave while working on deck and a third was injured trying to help them.
  • (20) Speculators, including banks and oil companies, fill these tankers with oil and let them drift around the oceans until the price rises.