different between banker vs loan

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?bæ?k?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?bæ?k?/
• Rhymes: -æ?k?(r)

Etymology 1

bank +? -er, after French banquier.

Noun

banker (plural bankers)

1. 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.
2. The dealer in a casino, or one who keeps the bank in a banking game.
3. (obsolete) A money changer.
4. The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.

Hyponyms

• usurer (offering loans, esp. at very high interest); loan shark (independent, offering loans at high interest); saraf (early modern Middle East & India); shroff (early modern India & SE Asia)

Derived terms

Related terms

• bank
• banking

Translations

Etymology 2

From bank (“an elevation, or rising ground”) + +? -er

Noun

banker (plural bankers)

1. A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
2. (Britain, dialect) A ditcher; a drain digger.
   • 1941, Ernestine Hill, My Love Must Wait, A&R Classics 2013, p. 6:

     But this was no storm, the bankers could have told him. It was break of the year.

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3. (mining) A banksman.

Translations

Etymology 3

From bank (“an incline or hill”) +? -er.

Noun

banker (plural bankers)

1. (rail transport, Britain, Australia) A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.

Synonyms

• (railway locomotive): bank engine (UK), helper, helper engine (US)

Translations

References

Anagrams

• barken

Danish

Noun

banker c pl

1. indefinite plural of bank

Verb

banker

1. present of banke

Ladino

Noun

banker m (Latin spelling)

1. banker

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From banke +? -er

Noun

banker m (definite singular bankeren, indefinite plural bankere, definite plural bankerne)

1. a beater (implement used for beating)

Derived terms

• teppebanker

Etymology 2

Noun

banker m pl

1. indefinite plural of bank.
2. indefinite plural of banke

Etymology 3

Verb

banker

1. present of banke

References

• “banker_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Swedish

Noun

banker

1. indefinite plural of bank.

Anagrams

• barken

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /lo?n/
• Rhymes: -??n
• Homophone: lone

Etymology 1

From Middle English lone, lane, from Old Norse lán, from Proto-Germanic *laihn?, from Proto-Indo-European *leyk?- (“to leave (over)”).

Cognate with Icelandic lán, Swedish lån, Danish lån, German Lehen (“fief”), Dutch leen (“fief”), West Frisian lien, North Frisian leen (“fief; loan; office”), Scots lane, lain, len, Old English l?n. More at lend.

Noun

loan (plural loans)

1. (law, banking, finance) An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use.

   Synonyms: loaning, lending

2. (law, banking, finance) A sum of money or other property that a natural or legal person borrows from another with the condition that it be returned or repaid over time or at a later date (sometimes with interest).

   Synonym: principal

3. The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan.

4. The permission to borrow any item.

Hypernyms

• (something borrowed): bailment

Hyponyms

• (something borrowed): mutuum, commodatum

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

loan (third-person singular simple present loans, present participle loaning, simple past and past participle loaned)

1. (usually double transitive, US, dated in Britain, informal) To lend (something) to (someone).
   • 1820 June 1, William King, in 1820, Letters to James Monroe: President of the United States, from William King,

     In the course of a correspondence that passed between us at this period, he mentioned, to my utter astonishment, the fact of his having loaned Neilson 81000 to buy my bill on Maryland; and stated that he could not proceed to make the payment until Neilson refunded the money.

   • 1992, Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, page 30,

     All the rest—six out of eleven, more than half—were loaned to him.

   • 2015, Joanne M. Flood, Wiley GAAP 2015: Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, page 574,

     Upon maturity of the debt, the investment bank returns the loaned shares.

     On the date of issuance, the entity should record the loaned shares at their fair value and recognize them as an issuance cost, with an offset to additional paid-in capital.

Usage notes

• This usage, once widespread in the UK, is now confined to the US (or perhaps parts thereof). The use of loan as a verb is occasionally disapproved of, especially when the object being lent is something other than money; as a consequence, lend is often preferred.

Translations

Further reading

• loan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

See lawn.

Noun

loan (plural loans)

1. (Scotland) A lonnen.

Anagrams

• Anlo, NOLA, Nola, lona, nola

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lo?n/, [?lo??n]
• Rhymes: -o?n
• Syllabification: lo?an

Noun

loan

1. genitive singular of loka

Anagrams

• laon, olan

Spanish

Verb

loan

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of loar.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of loar.

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from ?.

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [lwa?n??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [lwa????]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [l???a????]

Noun

(classifier con) loan

1. hen-phoenix