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# banker

«banker» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who runs or works at a high level in a bank…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a banker, bankers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who runs or works at a high level in a bank, deciding about loans and money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banker/#m1)

2) (games) The player in charge of the bank in a game like Monopoly, who hands out and takes in money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banker/#m2)

3) (UK, informal) Something certain to happen or win: «That team is a banker for the title.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banker/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In money lessons, a bank keeps people's savings safe and lends money; bankers decide who can borrow and how much interest to charge. In Monopoly, one player is the banker. In old stories, bankers are often rich and important. Phrases: «a bank manager» (more common for the person you meet at a branch).

### examples

- The banker agreed to lend the family money for a house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banker/#x1)
- I'll be the banker in Monopoly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banker/#x2)
- Her mum is a banker in the city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banker/#x3)
- The banker counted out the notes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banker/#x4)
- Bankers had to explain why the bank lost so much money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banker/#x5)
- The banker gave each player 1,500 pounds to start. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banker/#x6)
- A rich banker's family, who were driving in a coach and four, were blown out of it, and could not even find room behind it with their footmen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banker/#x7)

### note

Countable. A bank clerk or teller serves customers; a banker usually means a senior person. In games maths, the banker adds and subtracts money.

### In the corpora

- [We river-bankers, we hardly ever come here by ourselves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/35-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood/25/)
- [Being the banker in a game is a test of honesty, even though it is only a game.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/13/)
- [In Monopoly the dice decide where you land; the banker handles the money but cannot choose squares.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost/25/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «banker» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banker/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.