someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | a corporation gaining financial control over another corporation or financial institution through a payment in cash or an exchange of stock |
someone who obtains or acquires | the financial institution that dispenses cash in automated teller machines and collects a fee from the bank that issued the credit card |
| a credit card processing bank; merchants receive credit for credit card receipts less a processing fee |
| a person who acquires something (usually permanently) |