Banker vs Wasteful - What's the difference?
banker | wasteful |
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.
(obsolete) A money changer.
The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.
The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.
A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
(UK, dialect) A ditcher; a drain digger.
* 1941 , (Ernestine Hill), My Love Must Wait , A&R Classics 2013, p. 6:
(rail transport, British, Australia) A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.
Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
(obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.6:
In obsolete terms the difference between banker and wasteful
is that banker is a money changer while wasteful is uninhabited, desolate.As a noun banker
is 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.As an adjective wasteful is
inclined to waste or squander money or resources.banker
English
Etymology 1
From bank + , after French banquierNoun
(wikipedia banker) (en noun)- (Weale)
Etymology 2
From bank (An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea) + -erNoun
(en noun)- But this was no storm, the bankers could have told him. It was break of the year.
- (Grabb)
Etymology 3
From . (Bank engine)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (railway locomotive) bank engine (UK), helper engine (US)wasteful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Shortly unto the wastefull woods she came, / Whereas she found the Goddesse with her crew [...].