bank
Other forms: banks; banking; banked
Unless you hide it under your mattress, you probably keep your money in a bank, or a business that stores and invests money.
There are several different meanings of the word bank. Besides the ones connected with money — like a savings bank or a piggy bank — a bank is also a slope of grass or earth, such as a river bank. Both of these are rooted in a Germanic word, bankiz, or "bank of earth." From this root came words meaning "shelf" and "table." The money-related bank came from the "table" meaning, banque in Middle French, as in "moneylender's exchange table."
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a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities“he cashed a check at the bank”“that bank holds the mortgage on my home”types:credit uniona cooperative depository financial institution whose members can obtain loans from their combined savingsFederal Reserve Bank, reserve bankone of 12 regional banks that monitor and act as depositories for banks in their regionagent banka bank that acts as an agent for a foreign bankcommercial bank, full service banka financial institution that accepts demand deposits and makes loans and provides other services for the publicstate banka bank chartered by a state rather than by the federal governmentagent bank, lead banka bank named by a lending syndicate of several banks to protect their interestsmember banka bank that is a member of the Federal Reserve Systemacquirer, merchant banka credit card processing bank; merchants receive credit for credit card receipts less a processing feeacquirera corporation gaining financial control over another corporation or financial institution through a payment in cash or an exchange of stockthrift institutiona depository financial institution intended to encourage personal savings and home buyingHome Loan Bankone of 11 regional banks that monitor and make short-term credit advances to thrift institutions in their regionnational banka commercial bank chartered by the federal governmentsavings and loan, savings and loan associationa thrift institution that is required by law to make a certain percentage of its loans as home mortgagessavings banka thrift institution in the northeastern United States; since deregulation in the 1980s they offer services competitive with many commercial bankstype of:financial institution, financial organisation, financial organizationan institution (public or private) that collects funds (from the public or other institutions) and invests them in financial assets
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a building in which the business of banking transacted“the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon”synonyms: bank buildingtype of:deposit, depositary, depository, repositorya facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
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a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)types:blood banka place for storing whole blood or blood plasmaeye banka place for storing and preserving corneas that are obtained from human corpses immediately after death; used for corneal transplantation to patients with corneal defectsfood banka place where food is contributed and made available to those in needsoil bankland retired from crop cultivation and planted with soil-building crops; government subsidies are paid to farmers for their retired land
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a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home“the coin bank was empty”synonyms: coin bank, money box, savings banktypes:type of:containerany object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)
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do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank“Where do you bank in this town?”type of:transactconduct business
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put into a bank account
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be in the banking business
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have confidence or faith in“bank on your good education”
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the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games
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act as the banker in a game or in gamblingtype of:actdischarge one's duties
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sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water)
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a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force
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a long ridge or pile“a huge bank of earth”
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enclose with a bank
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cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning“bank a fire”type of:coverprovide with a covering or cause to be covered
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an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers“he operated a bank of switches”type of:arrayan orderly arrangement
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tip laterally“the pilot had to bank the aircraft”type of:tipcause to tilt
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a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning)“the plane went into a steep bank”types:vertical banka bank so steep that the plane's lateral axis approaches the verticaltype of:
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