"banker's dozen" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "A play on the phrase baker's dozen; it is one less than a dozen as compared to one more. See also bankers' hours.",
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          "ref": "1899, The Arena - Volume 21, page 195:",
          "text": "Not a low baker's dozen, you will perceive, but two high banker's dozen !",
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          "ref": "1960, United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business, Small Business Problems in Food Distribution:",
          "text": "There were 11 in number (a reference has been made to them as constituting a banker's dozen), representing the following organizations :",
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          "ref": "1968, JOH, Journal of Housing - Volume 25, page 432:",
          "text": "It concludes with a banker's dozen of 11 items labeled \"What to Read\" — a well chosen list on the urban, technological disruption of man's life and the earth's biosphere.",
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          "ref": "1981, David Black, The King of Fifth Avenue: the fortunes of August Belmont, page 240:",
          "text": "Caroline arranged to have appear at her concert a banker's dozen (eleven) of New York's most admired amateur and professional musicians, including the alluring divorcee Fanny Ronalds, who — it was rumored — was accomplished in arts more erotic than the one she would demonstrate that night.",
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          "ref": "2009, Ben Bova, The Precipice, →ISBN:",
          "text": "George counted eleven of them. A banker's dozen, he said to himself.",
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        "(idiomatic, uncommon) Eleven."
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          "ref": "1968, JOH, Journal of Housing - Volume 25, page 432:",
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          "ref": "1981, David Black, The King of Fifth Avenue: the fortunes of August Belmont, page 240:",
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