Creditor vs Banker - What's the difference?
creditor | banker |
(finance) A person to whom a debt is owed.
One who gives credence to something; a believer.
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.
As nouns the difference between creditor and banker
is that creditor is a person to whom a debt is owed while 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.creditor
English
Alternative forms
* creditour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* debtorHyponyms
* debtholder * noteholder * bondholder * general creditorAnagrams
* ----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)