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BANK

Definition:

1. [noun] 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"
   Synonyms: depository financial institution, ing concern, ing company
   
   
2. [noun] 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"
   
   
3. [noun] a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)
   
   
4. [noun] a building in which commercial banking is transacted; "the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon"
   Synonyms: building
   
   
5. [noun] an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers; "he operated a bank of switches"
   
   
6. [noun] a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home; "the coin bank was empty"
   Synonyms: savings coin money box
   
   
7. [noun] a long ridge or pile; "a huge bank of earth"
   
   
8. [noun] the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games; "he tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo"
   
   
9. [noun] 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
   Synonyms: cant, camber
   
   
10. [noun] a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning); "the plane went into a steep bank"
    
    
11. [verb] tip laterally; "the pilot had to bank the aircraft"
    
    
12. [verb] enclose with a bank; "bank roads"
    
    
13. [verb] do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank; "Where do you bank in this town?"
    
    
14. [verb] act as the banker in a game or in gambling
    
    
15. [verb] be in the banking business
    
    
16. [verb] put into a bank account; "She deposites her paycheck every month"
    Synonyms: deposit
    
    
17. [verb] cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning; "bank a fire"
    
    
18. [verb] have confidence or faith in; "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes"
    Synonyms: trust, swear, rely
    
    

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Related Words:

• redeposit
• credit
• lean
• count, bet, depend, look, calculate, reckon
• credit union
• Federal Reserve Bank, reserve bank
• agent bank
• commercial bank, full service bank
• state bank
• lead bank, agent bank
• member bank
• merchant bank, acquirer
• acquirer
• thrift institution
• Home Loan Bank
• riverbank, riverside
• waterside
• blood bank
• eye bank
• food bank
• soil bank
• piggy bank, penny bank
• bluff
• sandbank
• vertical bank

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