bank
has definitions from the fields of finance,work,games,transportation,business,banking,geography
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[ noun ] (finance) a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities
Examples "he cashed a check at the bank" "that bank holds the mortgage on my home" Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)The bill , which Daniel said he drafted personally , would force banks , insurance_firms , pipeline_companies and other corporations to report such property to the state_treasurer . Dewey_Lawrence , a Tyler lawyer representing the Texas_Bankers_Association , sounded the opposition keynote when he said it would force banks to violate their contractual obligations with depositors and undermine the confidence of bank customers . Dewey_Lawrence , a Tyler lawyer representing the Texas_Bankers_Association , sounded the opposition keynote when he said it would force banks to violate their contractual obligations with depositors and undermine the confidence of bank customers . `` If you destroy confidence in banks , you do something to the economy '' , he said . Rep._Charles_E._Hughes of Sherman , sponsor of the bill , said a failure to enact it would `` amount to making a gift out_of the taxpayers ' pockets to banks , insurance and pipeline_companies '' . |
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[ noun ] (geography) sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water)
Examples "they pulled the canoe up on the bank" "he sat on the bank of the river and watched the currents" Used in print (Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)The next step was construction by the Manchester_Light_and_Power_Company of a plant on the west bank of the Battenkill south of Union_Street bridge . (Francis Pollini, Night....)Over on the bank , the west bank , a man stood , calling to him . Over on the bank , the west bank , a man stood , calling to him . (Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)He improvised as he went_along , completing a life-size clay figure , then bought yards of an inexpensive material from a draper , wet the lightweight cloth in a basin and covered it over with clay that Argiento brought from the bank of the Tiber , to the consistency of thick mud . (Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)Along Wappinger_Creek in Dutchess_County , past the white church at Fishkill , past Verplanck_'s_Point on the east bank of the Hudson , to the white salt crusted roads of the Long_Island_Rockaways there was a watching and an activity of preparing_for something explosive to happen . |
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[ noun ] (finance,business) a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)
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[ noun ] (banking) a building in which commercial banking is transacted
Synonyms Examples "the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon" Related terms |
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[ noun ] an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers
Examples "he operated a bank of switches" Used in print (Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)In the ballroom below , the dark had given_way to moonlight coming_in through the bank of French_windows . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home
Synonyms Examples "the coin bank was empty" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (geography) a long ridge or pile
Examples "a huge bank of earth" Used in print (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)Grabbing his Winchester from its sheath , Cook prepared to fight from behind the arroyo bank . (Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)And wherever the new thruways go_up their banks are lined by neat glass and metal and colored brick light industry . |
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[ verb ] tip laterally
Examples "the pilot had to bank the aircraft" Used in print (San Francisco Chronicle,...)He managed to maneuver the missile to a landing speed of 200 m. p. h. - fast even for a modern jet_plane touchdown - and banked into the airfield . (Hal Kelly, "Build Hotei"...)She also banks into a turn like a fine runabout - not digging in on_the_outside to throw passengers all_over the boat like many_a small cabin_cruiser . Related terms |
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[ verb ] enclose with a bank
Examples "bank roads" Used in print (Mignon G. Eberhart, The Cup, the Blade...)It was a long , low room , like a root_cellar , for it was banked up with soil , and vines had run rampant over that , too . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (games) the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games
Examples "he tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo" Related terms |
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[ verb ] (business) do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank
Examples "Where do you bank in this town?" Related terms |
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[ verb ] (work) act as the banker in a game or in gambling
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[ verb ] cover with ashes, of fires, to control the rate of burning
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 8006
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[ noun ] (transportation) a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning)
Examples "the plane went into a steep bank" Related terms |
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