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Definition of bank

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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; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity..

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Bankrupt :: Bankrupt (v. t.) To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.

Discovery :: Discovery (n.) A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets..

Bankruptcy :: Bankruptcy (n.) The state of being actually or legally bankrupt.

Batter :: Batter (n.) A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.

Assignment :: Assignment (n.) The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors..

Shroff :: Shroff (n.) A banker, or changer of money..

Upland :: Upland (n.) High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry; -- opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, swamp, interval, and the like..

Bank :: Bank (n.) The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow..

Whitewash :: Whitewash (v. t.) To make white; to give a fair external appearance to; to clear from imputations or disgrace; hence, to clear (a bankrupt) from obligation to pay debts..

Substitution :: Substitution (n.) The act of substituting or putting one person or thing in the place of another; as, the substitution of an agent, attorney, or representative to act for one in his absense; the substitution of bank notes for gold and silver as a circulating medium..

Imbank :: Imbank (v. t.) To inclose or defend with a bank or banks. See Embank.

Embankment :: Embankment (n.) The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.

Wild-cat :: Wild-cat (a.) Unsound; worthless; irresponsible; unsafe; -- said to have been originally applied to the notes of an insolvent bank in Michigan upon which there was the figure of a panther.

Glacis :: Glacis (n.) A gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank; especially (Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of Ravelin)..

Alluvion :: Alluvion (n.) Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.

Bank :: Bank (v. t.) To pass by the banks of.

Mount :: Mount (v.) A bank; a fund.

Messenger :: Messenger (n.) A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge og the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent..

Check :: Check (n.) A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below..

Banker :: Banker (n.) One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc..