noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an investment banker
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He is an investment banker at a prestigious Wall Street firm.
banker's card
banker's draft
banker's order
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
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For a central banker , that was quite an adventurous statement.
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If the battle against inflation is primary, central bankers will be described as the most important economic players in the game.
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What about central bankers per head of population - supposing, which is not obvious, that bigger countries need bigger banks?
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That is not democracy or power to the people - it is all power to an autarchy of unaccountable conservative central bankers .
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Seldom has a central banker looked more secure in his war against marauding politicians.
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While some pundits denounce them, I believe they play a useful role, keeping politicians and central bankers honest.
commercial
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Data are being gathered from published sources and from interviews with officials, private insurers and commercial bankers .
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Companies had long been the domain of commercial bankers and the corporate finance and equity departments of investment banks.
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After Glass-Steagall most people became commercial bankers .
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You know, stocks and bonds. Commercial bankers just make loans.
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Co., the commercial banker , looks more like Morgan Stanley Group Inc., the investment banker.
international
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The workers and peasants toil and sweat to service debts owed to the international bankers and multilateral agencies.
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The death of Sir Thomas Throgmorton after a sudden illness was worth a paragraph in view of his role of international banker .
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But international bankers don't give money for these purposes.
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Thomas Throgmorton - wasn't he some kind of banker ? International banker, his memory threw up.
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city
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Freshfields's new marbled offices off Fleet Street would pique the ego of the grandest City banker .
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Whitley, a willowy former City banker , peppered his talk with literary bon mots and some distinctly fast verse.
investment
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He was a spectacularly successful investment banker and pioneer in investment analysis.
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Last year, it retained investment bankers and disclosed it was considering an initial public offering of stock.
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It was believed that much of the information was acquired by way of his employment as an investment banker .
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The company will sell about 60 billion lire to the public by the end of January, say investment bankers .
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After all, their brokers and investment bankers win business by being optimists, not pessimists.
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Some liberal investment banker from Scarsdale?
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Byers, and investment banker Goldman Sachs, lets groups of people play fast-action games across the Internet.
merchant
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A former merchant banker , Le Roux knew little about motorbikes; he didn't even have a license to drive one.
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He had a bank balance that a senior merchant banker would not be ashamed of.
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The first merchant bankers approached were Samuel Montagu.
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Let me show you that all men aren't as cruel and immature as your retarded merchant banker .
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Mr Fitton, backed by merchant banker Henry Ansbacher, first came up with the offer six weeks ago.
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By analogy, the same principle could apply to other insiders, such as merchant bankers , who misuse confidential news.
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The plaintiffs obtained a report from the defendants, merchant bankers with whom E had an account, as to E's creditworthiness.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A former merchant banker , Le Roux knew little about motorbikes; he didn't even have a license to drive one.
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Economics satisfied the two most basic needs of investment bankers.
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My husband is a banker with a very demanding schedule.
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She had never before met a poor banker .
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The movement of the business men, bankers, industrialists into the party ... continued ....