What is the name meaning of BANKER. Phrases containing BANKER
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German (of Slavic origin)
German (of Slavic origin) : from a pet form of the personal name Pavel or Paweł, respectively the Czech and Polish forms of Paul, or from a Sorbian cognate.German (of Slavic origin) : nickname for a small man, from Slavic palac ‘thumb’.Irish : MacLysaght ascribes the origin of this surname in Ireland to the arrival there in the 15th century of a Lombard family of bankers named de Palatio.English : from Old French palis, paleis ‘palisade’, ‘fence’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a palisade or a metonymic occupational name for a maker of fences.English : possibly a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked at a palace (bishop’s, archbishop’s, or royal), from Old French, Middle English palais, paleis.English : metonymic occupational name for a worker at a straw stack, from Old French paille ‘straw’ + Middle English hous ‘house’.Greek : ornamental name or nickname from Albanian pallë ‘sword’.Catalan (Pallà s) : variant spelling of Pallars, a regional name from the Catalan district of Pallars, in the Pyrenees.
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English : topographic name from northern Middle English bank(e) ‘hillside slope’, ‘riverbank’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant (see Banks).Scottish : habitational name from Bankier in Stirlingshire.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name from Polish bankier ‘banker’.German (Bänker) : occupational name from an agent derivative of Middle Low German banc ‘bench’, ‘counter’ (see Bank).
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Indian (Gujarat and Bombay city)
Indian (Gujarat and Bombay city) : Hindu (Vania) and Parsi name from Gujarati sÉ™raf ‘banker’, ‘money-changer’, from Arabic Ì£sarrÄf. There has probably been some confusion with Arabic sharÄ«f ‘noble’ and sharÄfa ‘nobility’, which have also been borrowed into Hindi and other modern Indian languages. Shroff is used as a vocabulary word in Indian English to denote a banker or money changer.English : although this is for the most part an Indian name (see 1 above), it was already well established in England in the 19th century (see below) and may also be of English origin. If it is not Indian, the etymology is unknown.
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An association of persons officially authorized to undertake some duty or to negotiate some business; also, an association of persons who combine to carry out, on their own account, a financial or industrial project; as, a syndicate of bankers formed to take up and dispose of an entire issue of government bonds.
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The business of a bank or of a banker.
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One who punts; specifically, one who plays against the banker or dealer, as in baccara and faro.
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That which is placed anywhere, or in any one's hands, for safe keeping; something intrusted to the care of another; esp., money lodged with a bank or banker, subject to order; anything given as pledge or security.
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A female banker.
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A gambling game at cardds, in whiich all the other players play against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack.
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A banker, or changer of money.
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A person who deals in money; banker or broker.
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A banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange.
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A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
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The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work.
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A ditcher; a drain digger.
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A banker.
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A money lender or banker; -- so called because the business of banking was first carried on in London by Lombards.
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An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris.
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A method adopted by banks and bankers for making an exchange of checks held by each against the others, and settling differences of accounts.
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A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below.
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The place where the merchants, brokers, and bankers of a city meet at certain hours, to transact business. In this sense often contracted to 'Change.
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An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse.