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- adjective Characteristic of a
banker .
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Examples
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As part of a plan by the new Democratic majority to create the impression of frenzied hard work, the House has also boosted its workweek from a bankerly three days to five, and the Senate has trimmed its other spring break — two weeks in April — by half.
Calendar 2007
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As part of a plan by the new Democratic majority to create the impression of frenzied hard work, the House has also boosted its workweek from a bankerly three days to five, and the Senate has trimmed its other spring break — two weeks in April — by half.
Calendar 2007
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The new approach has already won praise on the Hill-which, still in Republican hands, appreciates a bankerly approach.
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In fact, the mosque is a building strongly evocative of its own time, with its sober, bankerly facade of tawny pink granite.
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There was no giant watch, no pocket square, nothing of the bankerly peacock.
NYT > Home Page By HEIDI N. MOORE 2010
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There was no giant watch, no pocket square, nothing of the bankerly peacock.
Theodore Roosevelt IV Backs Wind Farm Off Martha's Vineyard - NYTimes.com 2010
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"White House Trouble Spots" complained about the rightward tilt of the President's Economic Policy Group -- a body so bankerly that one Jordan operative privately renamed it the Business Policy Group.
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Nothing better to go with that than French Lover I point blank refuse to call it Bois d'Orage: it has the solid, bankerly feel of a rock-ribbed Republican but with a poet’s heart.
Archive 2007-07-01 Marina Geigert 2007
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