Debtor vs Banker - What's the difference?
debtor | banker |
(economics) A person or firm that owes money; one in debt; one who owes a debt
(legal) One who owes another anything, or is under obligation, arising from express agreement, implication of law, or principles of natural justice, to pay money or to fulfill some other obligation; in bankruptcy or similar proceedings, the person who is the subject of the proceeding.
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 debtor and banker
is that debtor is (economics) a person or firm that owes money; one in debt; one who owes a debt while banker is banker (who works in the banking industry).debtor
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Alternative forms
* debtour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* creditorbanker
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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)