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/ˈbæŋkəː/ · noun
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..
I have a good banker in this city, but I would not wish to draw upon the house until the time when I shall draw for a round sum.
[T]he new traceries, mullions, transoms, shafts, pinnacles, and battlements standing on the bankers half worked[.]
May 20 1815, John Quincy Adams, letter to a merchant I think the 584 Bankers may be put down 36,540 tons, navigated by 4,627 men and boys
But this was no storm, the bankers could have told him. It was break of the year.
When Jose came to Manchester United, two and a half years ago, this was the no-brainer, the banker, the one which couldn't fail. The one who had never failed.
Between them these engines work passenger trains on the Keith line, and also act as bankers up to Dava when required.
Because of a shortage of W.R. pannier tanks, two "E6" 0-6-2 tanks, Nos. 32410/5, were engaged as bankers on the Folkestone Harbour branch at the beginning of March; [...].
Use banker when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Banker means 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..
Common synonyms include sure thing, banker's envelope, invitation envelope, browman.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I have a good banker in this city, but I would not wish to draw upon the house until the time when I shall draw for a round sum.
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