bankerdomn.
/ˈbaŋkədəm/, U.S. /ˈbæŋkərdəm/ Bankers collectively; the banking industry.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > one conducting banking business > manager, director, or proprietor of bank > collectively
bankerdom1854
1854 N.-Y. Daily Times 12 Sept. 1/2 A sum which, I imagine, cannot be easily handled, even, by a conspiracy of universal Bankerdom.
1863 E. Dicey Six Months in Federal States I. 170 The Herald, supported by the bankerdom of the North.
1909 E. Untermann tr. K. Marx Capital III. v. xxxvi. 708 The main spokesman of this movement is Sir Josiah Child, the father of normal English bankerdom.
2012 Irish Independent (Nexis) 30 Aug. All the stuffy boardroom formality and sang froid that international bankerdom can muster.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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