0 to have a strong desire for something:
[ + to infinitive ] I always hankered to go to Nashville.
He had to turn the car round and come back to raise money from the international hankers.
You heard opinions of every variety awl form—opinions of merchants, hankers, traders, business men of every sort.
There are real pleasures which accrue from country life and living and working in the country, as indeed the townsman knows and hankers after.
He was quite clearly hankering again for the old days of opposition when he attacked this side.
There are in the possession of hankers enormous quantities of securities of various kinds to which they have no legal title.
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.
We have hankers, captains of industry, barristers and other learned professions.
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.
