bank
NOUN · English · homograph 1: etymology 1
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English is Experimental in Words. Support is measured, not declared: a language reaches Partial only when every measure meets its threshold, and a measure that has not been taken does not count. The development corpus holds 60 source-backed words in English. What is shown may be incomplete, and pronunciation audio, generated forms and generated examples are not offered.
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Definition: An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs. From a source of medium confidence.
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- 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”. 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:
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Definition: A branch office of such an institution. From a source of medium confidence.
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Definition: An underwriter or controller of a card game. From a source of medium confidence.
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Definition: A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital. From a source of medium confidence.
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- Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money. 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Usury”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
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Definition: The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses. From a source of medium confidence.
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Definition: Money; profit. From a source of medium confidence.
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- Military dude was working for a drug dealer, right? and making good bank with it—he was making good money. 2010, Paul Bouchard, Enlistment, page 113:
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Definition: In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw. From a source of medium confidence.
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Definition: A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods. From a source of medium confidence.
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- blood bank; data bank; sperm bank Usage example — not an attested quotation.
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Definition: A device used to store coins or currency. From a source of medium confidence.
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- If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
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Definition: A collection of instrument data on a digital synthesizer. From a source of medium confidence.
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- All of the drum kits are on bank 1. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
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Etymology: Inherited from Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of bench, banc, and banco. For the bench-bank relation, compare typologically Russian ла́вка (lávka), прила́вок (prilávok). From a source of medium confidence.
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