"bankster" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈbæŋkstə/ [UK] Forms: banksters [plural]
Etymology: Blend of banker + gangster Judge Ferdinand Pecora has been credited with coining the term "bankster." In June 1933, his image appeared on the cover of Time magazine, seated at a US Senate table, a cigar in his mouth. Pecora’s hearings were said to have coined a new phrase, "banksters" for the finance "gangsters." However, the word, with the same meaning, had appeared in the U.S. press at least a year and a half previous to that. The term was later used by Léon Degrelle, Belgian fascist politician and journalist, in 1937 as a pejorative term for high financiers. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|banker|gangster}} Blend of banker + gangster Head templates: {{en-noun}} bankster (plural banksters)
  1. (informal, derogatory) A banker who is seen as criminally irresponsible, or as extorting bailout money from the taxpayers. Tags: derogatory, informal Categories (topical): People Translations (Translations): bankster [masculine] (French), Bankster [masculine] (German), bankster [masculine] (Polish)

Inflected forms

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