Bank
(n.) A bench |
Bank
(n.) A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level |
Bank
(n.) A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine. |
Bank
(n.) The margin of a watercourse |
Bank
(n.) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea |
Bank
(n.) The face of the coal at which miners are working. |
Bank
(n.) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level. |
Bank
(n.) The ground at the top of a shaft |
Bank
(v. t.) To raise a mound or dike about |
Bank
(v. t.) To heap or pile up |
Bank
(v. t.) To pass by the banks of. |
Bank
(n.) A bench, as for rowers in a galley |
Bank
(n.) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit. |
Bank
(n.) The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc. |
Bank
(n.) A sort of table used by printers. |
Bank
(n.) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ. |
Bank
(n.) An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange |
Bank
(n.) The building or office used for banking purposes. |
Bank
(n.) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business |
Bank
(n.) The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses. |
Bank
(n.) In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw. |
Bank
(v. t.) To deposit in a bank. |
Bank
(v. i.) To keep a bank |
Bank
(v. i.) To deposit money in a bank |
Bank bill
() In America (and formerly in England), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand, and used as currency |
Bank bill
() In England, a note, or a bill of exchange, of a bank, payable to order, and usually at some future specified time. Such bills are negotiable, but form, in the strict sense of the term, no part of the currency. |
Bank book
() A book kept by a depositor, in which an officer of a bank enters the debits and credits of the depositor's account with the bank. |
Bank note
() A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to bearer on demand. |
Bank note
() Formerly, a promissory note made by a banker, or banking company, payable to a specified person at a fixed date |
Bank note
() A promissory note payable at a bank. |
Bank-sided
(a.) Having sides inclining inwards, as a ship |
Bank swallow
() See under 1st Bank, n. |
Cliff
(n.) A high, steep rock |
Cliff
(n.) See Clef. |
Cliff limestone
() A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly Silurian and partly Devonian. |
Double-bank
(v. t.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart. |
Sea bank
() The seashore. |
Sea bank
() A bank or mole to defend against the sea. |
| bank shot | a basketball shot that bounces off of the backboard before passing through the hoop |
| bank | a flight maneuver, aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning), the plane went into a steep bank |
| vertical bank | a bank so steep that the plane's lateral axis approaches the vertical |
| bank closing | act of closing down a bank because of a fiscal emergency or failure |
| bank withdrawal | the withdrawal of money from your account at a bank |
| bank run | the concerted action of depositors who try to withdraw their money from a bank because they think it will fail |
| cliff diving | diving into the water from a steep overhanging cliff |
Russian bank
crapette | solitaire with two players using separate packs |
| bank examination | an examination of the affairs and records of a bank by a state or federal bank examiner |
cliff swallow
Hirundo pyrrhonota | North American swallow that lives in colonies and builds bottle-shaped mud nests on cliffs and walls |
bank martin
bank swallow
sand martin
Riparia riparia | swallow of the northern hemisphere that nests in tunnels dug in clay or sand banks |
bank
bank building | a building in which the business of banking transacted, the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon |
| bottle bank | a place where bottles can be deposited for recycling |
| cliff dwelling | a rock and adobe dwelling built on sheltered ledges in the sides of a cliff, the Anasazi built cliff dwellings in the southwestern United States |
oyster bed
oyster bank
oyster park | a workplace where oysters are bred and grown |
piggy bank
penny bank | a child's coin bank (often shaped like a pig) |
savings bank
coin bank
money box bank | a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home, the coin bank was empty |
snowbank
snow bank | a mound or heap of snow |
| sperm bank | a depository for storing sperm |
| vault bank vault | a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables |
bank identification number
BIN
ABA transit number | an identification number consisting of a two-part code assigned to banks and savings associations, the first part shows the location and the second identifies the bank itself |
| bank charter | a charter authorizing the operation of a bank |
| bank statement | a periodic statement prepared by a bank for each client, I wish my bank statement arrived earlier in the month |
| bank holding company | a holding company owning or controlling one or more banks |
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
World Bank
IBRD | a United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments |
| central bank | a government monetary authority that issues currency and regulates the supply of credit and holds the reserves of other banks and sells new issues of securities for the government |
| European Central Bank | the central bank of those members of the European Union who share a common currency, The European Central Bank is Europe's equivalent of the Federal Reserve |
Federal Reserve Bank
reserve bank | one of regional banks that monitor and act as depositories for banks in their region |
| Bank of England | the central bank of England and Wales |
| Bank of Japan | the central bank of Japan |
| agent bank | a bank that acts as an agent for a foreign bank |
commercial bank
full service bank | a financial institution that accepts demand deposits and makes loans and provides other services for the public |
| national bank | a commercial bank chartered by the federal government |
| state bank | a bank chartered by a state rather than by the federal government |
lead bank
agent bank | a bank named by a lending syndicate of several banks to protect their interests |
| member bank | a bank that is a member of the Federal Reserve System |
merchant bank
acquirer | a credit card processing bank, merchants receive credit for credit card receipts less a processing fee |
depository financial institution
bank
banking concern
banking company | 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 |
industrial bank
industrial loan company | a finance company that makes small loans to industrial workers |
| savings bank | a thrift institution in the northeastern United States, since deregulation in the s they offer services competitive with many commercial banks |
| Home Loan Bank | one of regional banks that monitor and make short-term credit advances to thrift institutions in their region |
| Federal Home Loan Bank System | the central credit system for thrift institutions |
mutual savings bank
MSB | a statehartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees |
federal savings bank
FSB | a federally chartered savings bank |
| bank | an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers, he operated a bank of switches |
| West Bank | an area between Israel and Jordan on the west bank of the Jordan river, populated largely by Palestinians |
Left Bank
Latin Quarter | the region of Paris on the southern bank of the Seine, a center of artistic and student life |
| Right Bank | the region of Paris on the north bank of the Seine |
| bank | a long ridge or pile, a huge bank of earth |
| bank | sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water), they pulled the canoe up on the bank, he sat on the bank of the river and watched the currents |