Bank

/ˈbæŋk/ · noun

Meaning

(countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
2. (countable) A branch office of such an institution.
3. (countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.
4. (countable) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
5. (gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
6. (slang, uncountable) Money; profit.
7. (countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
8. (countable, chiefly in combination) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.

Example Sentences

Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.[…]Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.

Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.

Military dude was working for a drug dealer, right? and making good bank with it—he was making good money.

blood bank; data bank; sperm bank

If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank.

He banked with Barclays.

the sort of face you would happily bank with

I’m going to bank the money.

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Word Forms

• banks
• banck
• bancke
• banke
• banking
• banked

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