Meaning

The amount that a bank holds..

Definitions by Sense

1. The amount that a bank holds.
2. Alternative form of bankfull.

Example Sentences

"Oh, a girl that has a bankful of money," replied Martha, carelessly.

A history of cancer and heart disease, probably. Of course what she hoped was that his side of the family was fabulously wealthy. She'd spent her entire life fantasizing about him coming back into their lives somehow to give them bankfuls of cash.

To end my days in ignominy, trapped between a bitter old bureaucrat and a bankful of treacherous swindlers? All my twisting, my lying, my bargains, and my pain. All those corpses left beside the road... for this?

... young suited masters who rove in packs and do not know anything of the earth or that which walks upon it other than how to extract bankfuls of cash from its black bowels and flex the city's breadth another stern block toward the mountains.

The river was reached at the ferry, and the memorable crossing undertaken. The scene has been commemorated in art and story. The Delaware, six hundred yards in width, was bankful of turbid water and floating ice. The current was deep ...

[…] But as Mr. Spears writes, "A river of Jordan, running bankful of blood ..."

An increase in the bankful capacity of the main stream at critical sections is proposed, but channel enlargement to provide for flood-now capacity is not feasible.

High crests of these overflows were: Manhattan, 23.0 feet, 8.0 above bankful, on June 16–17; Wamego, 20.8 feet, 4.8 feet above bankful, on June 17; Topeka, 26.8 feet, 5.8 feet above bankful, on June 17; […]

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Use bankful when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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