hanker
verb[I]
us/ˈhæŋ·kər/to have astrongdesirefor something:
I’ve been hankering for ahotdog.
[+ to infinitive]I always hankered to go to Nashville.
hankering
noun[C]us/ˈhæŋ·kər·ɪŋ/
She’s got a hankering to writeplays.
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He had to turn the car round and come back to raise money from the international hankers.
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You heard opinions of every variety awl form—opinions of merchants, hankers, traders, business men of every sort.
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There are real pleasures which accrue from country life and living and working in the country, as indeed the townsman knows and hankers after.
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He was quite clearly hankering again for the old days of opposition when he attacked this side.
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There are in the possession of hankers enormous quantities of securities of various kinds to which they have no legal title.
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In their work until now, those officials have come forward with a major achievement in co-operation with the private sector—the hankers, lawyers, and so on.
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We have hankers, captains of industry, barristers and other learned professions.
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We understand the reasons why that must be done, as do foreign exchange dealers and hankers, but the mass of ordinary people in this country do not.
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Presumably we have civil servants indulging in negotiations with companies about participation on a straight old-fashioned bargaining basis, the kind of bargaining which one employs merchant hankers to do.
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The fat does not last and you cannot keep on larding it on, although international financiers and monied interests in this country have hankered after the past.
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They are hankering after the means-tested society.
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They are hankering after a common currency.
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The merchant then is forced to sell a portion of his stock at practically any price, in order to get money to wipe off the overdraft, at his hankers.
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By 1999, however, only the security services still hankered after key escrow.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Subsequently, the pilot resumes his career piloting the large passenger planes he had been hankering after.
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