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n. 1 A businessman employed at, or a partner at a merchant bank. 2 (context chiefly British rhyming slang English) A wanker. (qualifier: In this sense, the term can also be abbreviated to ''merchant''.)
Usage examples of "merchant banker".
As the day for issuing the tender documents drew nearer, Charlie spent more and more of his time with the merchant banker.
While in London, he even carried a rolled black brolly and sported a bowler, the epitome of the young merchant banker.
He still showed the effects of his hard race the day before, but he was sturdy and sound, and there was a very good chance he would give the merchant banker his Derby.
One was the son of a serving MI6 officer, one a Metropolitan Police SB (Special Branch) officer, another in the DIS, one a merchant banker and the last worked for a political consultancy in Oxford.
Roger Garfield, a merchant banker in his mid-fifties, sits in the rear seat, head leaning against the off-side stereo speaker as if to catch some fleeting grace note.
When they rode into the bawn seconds later, they were met by the sight of Christian de Guevain, a Paris-based merchant banker who shared Fitzduane's interest in medieval weaponry-de Guevain's specialty being the longbow-getting out of a taxi festooned with fishing rods and other impedimenta.
Besides, this wish to be somewhere else obviously didn't apply only to us: at least two others, a bald-headed, goatee-bearded merchant banker by the name of Henri Biscarte and a big bluff Scots lawyer by the name of MacCallum were just as uncomfortable as I felt, but showed it a great deal more.