Definition of "bankerage"
bankerage1
noun
usually uncountable, plural bankerages
(rare) Banking.
Quotations
[…] merely because bankerage beats blacksmithing?
1906, John MacVicar, Frank G. Pierce, American Municipalities, page 19
We believe that the 2 or 3 percentage point increase that this is likely to generate will not make any significant difference in market price and in our ability—with our bankerage—to adjust supply and demand.
1991, Reforming the Federal Crop Insurance Program: Hearings ... before the United States House Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development, page 228
bankerage2
noun
usually uncountable, plural bankerages
A brokerage institution that also offers banking services.
Quotations
[…] for the Web to provide a complete range of "bankerage" services. In two new studies, Corporate Insight senior analyst David Rosenberg claims that only 40 percent of the 18 brokerages that the firm monitors can be considered a full bankerage, defined as a broker that offers traditional banking products.
2008, Wall Street & Technology, volume 26