Word Finder - bankers

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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.

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A money changer.

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The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.

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The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.

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A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.

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A ditcher; a drain digger.

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A banksman.

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A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.

He borrowed large sums from bankers, curials, princes and Jews.

I would not at this stage care to put much money on the outcome - central bankers are a naturally cautious breed.

The rental is to be paid quarterly in advance by bankers order.

During the same period the assumption of the Venetian and Roman debts, losses on the issue of loans and the accumulation of annual deficits, had caused public indebtedness to rise from 92,000,000 to 328,000,000, no less than f 100,000,000 of the latter sum having been sacrificed in premiums and commissions to bankers and underwriters of loans.

It gave its name to cadurcum, a kind of light linen, and the bankers of Cahors were famous.

His first step was to recover control of the mint, and place it in the hands of capable middle-class merchants and bankers, like Caspar Beer, Jan Thurzo, Jan Boner, the Betmans, exiles for conscience' sake from Alsace, who had sought refuge in Poland under Casimir IV., Justus Decyusz, subsequently the king's secretary and historian, and their fellows, all practical economists of high integrity who reformed the currency and opened out new ways for trade and commerce.

He had already persecuted and plundered the Jews and the Lombard bankers, and repeated recourse to the debasing of the coinage had led to a series of small risings.

The Peasants Union had actually been forbidden by the police; Bismarck himself was violently attacked for his reputed connection with a great Jewish firm of bankers.

The government as restored by Andrea Doria, with certain modifications tending to impart to it a more conservative character, remained unchanged until the outbreak of the French Revolution and the creation of the Ligurian republic. During this long period of nearly three centuries, in which the most dramatic incident is the conspiracy of Fieschi, the Genoese found no small compensation for their lost traffic in the East in the vast profits which they made as the bankers of the Spanish crown and outfitters of the Spanish armies and fleets both in the old world and the new, and Genoa, more fortunate than many of the other cities of Italy, was comparatively immune from foreign domination.

He watched the roads, built new ones, opened markets, protected the only bankers of the country, the Jews, and reorganized the administration so as to draw the utmost revenue possible from the prosperity thus secured.

Lombard merchants soon spread all over western Europe, a chief source of their ever-increasing wealth being their employment as bankers of the papal see.

The followers of his creed, amongst whom there are many wealthy merchants and bankers, direct their worship chiefly to Gopal Lal, the boyish Krishna of Vrindavana, whose image is sedulously attended like a revered living person eight times a day - from its early rising from its couch up to its retiring to repose at night.

He died at Clapham on the 24th of February 1810, leaving funded property worth £700,000, and a landed estate of £8000 a year, together with canal and other property, and £so,000 at his bankers.

His parents belonged to the mercantile aristocracy - the bankers and traders of Danzig.

The chief business of the native sarrafs (money-changers, bankers; &c.) is to discount bills at high rates, hardly ever less than 12%, and remit money from place to place in Persia for a commission amounting to from I to 5, or even 6% on each transaction; and in spite of the European banks giving lower rates of discount and remitting money at par, the majority of the people and mercantile classes still deal with the natives.

The term was first used in the western states of America of speculative bankers who were said to have started business with no other property than what they could carry in a carpet-bag, and absconded when they failed.

Fair and Their great mistake had lain in becoming rich, and the rich to excess, through serving as bankers to princes, Teniplars.

They are skilled artisans, bankers and merchants, and are remarkable for their industry, their quick intelligence, their aptitude for business, and for that enterprising spirit which led their ancestors, in Roman times, to trade with Scythia, China and India.

Similar guidelines may also be needed for the non-material equivalents of bankers ' acceptances.

New Labor is not worried about unelected bankers setting our interest rates.

Vatican bank Swiss bankers have been forced to open their books to expose the enormity of the crime.

It is the premier grand cru of English gardens, owned by the same family, the bankers Hoare, from 1715 to 1947.

Only upon receipt of the deposit by bankers draft or in cleared funds, can the booking be confirmed.

Bankers, men of a more positive nature, devised a specious fable.

Bonds rose on sentiment that economic indicators might lessen the likelihood of central bankers cutting rates early next year.

Here, the bankers and the industrial magnates have the decisive word.

A reference and/or authority from any existing mortgagee (and possibly one's bankers) will also need to be furnished.

As bankers we are primarily concerned with our exposure to the original obligor.

Brown had the prescience to realize that the public places greater trust in bankers to look after their money, than politicians.

The trade-licence tax (impt des patentes) is imposed on every person carrying on any business whatever; it affects professional men, bankers and manufacturers, as well as wholesale and retail traders, and consists of (I) a fixed duty levied not on actual profits but with reference to the extent of a business or calling as indicated by number of employbs, population of the locality and other considerations.

Moreover, in order to meet to some extent the deficit arising as well from the accumulation of arrears of state departments since 1300 (1884) as, to a large degree, from gross deficiencies due to the neglect of the civil officials of the government to encash the revenues - to meet, further, the needs of the central administration, and above all, the urgent military expenses of the empire, and to provide a guarantee for bankers and merchants in business relations with the government and the treasury, part of the revenues of 1304 were perforce spent in 1303.

Telegraphic transfer is far safer than sending a check or bankers draft which can get lost.

The Massachusetts Mortgage Bankers Association list of members doesn't include every Boston mortgage lender, but it's a good start.

The rate is determined every London business day morning at 11 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time by the British Bankers Association (BBA).

The Libor interest rates are determined each London business day by the British Bankers' Association (BBA) as a composite of at least eight major banks in London.

The format of their data, however, may not be as easy-to-use as the formats used on various financial data websites.A good place to start for Libor rate history is the website of the British Bankers' Association (BBA).

In this situation, the British Bankers' Association is a good source for daily information.

Each business day of the week, the British Bankers' Association determines the LIBOR rate at approximately 11 a.m. local time.

To calculate the LIBOR rate, the British Bankers' Association looks at the middle 50 percent of the rates provided by the panel banks to determine an average.

They submit the interest rates every business day to the British Bankers Association, commonly called the BBA.

It is the British Bankers Association that compiles and releases the interest rate every business day.

Taureans make good bankers, real estate investors and financial advisors.

Bankers think and rightfully so, that if you appear in front of their desk dressed like you just crawled out from under a car, you're disrespecting them.

Bankers are conservative and often fussy types who don't take well to soiled work clothes.

Bankers are people too, no matter what your friends in business say.

But since you plan to buy a franchise, bankers may be more willing to take a look at your figures and planning.

This package is recommended by many bankers, who need well-written, comprehensive plans in order to process business startup loans.

Adrian's current roster of more than 50 clients includes stock traders, investment bankers, human resource and entertainment industry executives.

Their insurance policies are underwritten by American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida, for all states except Minnesota.

The American Bankers company has been in business since 1947 and has an "A" rating by A.M. Best.