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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Strode :: Strid (n.) A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks, which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride..
Triaconter :: Triaconter (n.) A vessel with thirty banks of oars, or, as some say, thirty ranks of rowers..
Chemise :: Chemise (n.) A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.
Mountebankism :: Mountebankism (n.) The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.
Terrace :: Terrace (v.) A street, or a row of houses, on a bank or the side of a hill; hence, any street, or row of houses..
Revetment :: Revetment (v. t.) A facing of wood, stone, or any other material, to sustain an embankment when it receives a slope steeper than the natural slope; also, a retaining wall..
Bireme :: Bireme (n.) An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.
Mound :: Mound (n.) An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll..
Direction :: Direction (n.) The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public affairs or of a bank..
Currency :: Currency (n.) That which is in circulation, or is given and taken as having or representing value; as, the currency of a country; a specie currency; esp., government or bank notes circulating as a substitute for metallic money..
Bankrupt :: Bankrupt (n.) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors..
Dam :: Dam (n.) A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water..
Place :: Place (n.) To put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place money in a bank..
Arrive :: Arrive (v. i.) To come to the shore or bank. In present usage: To come in progress by water, or by traveling on land; to reach by water or by land; -- followed by at (formerly sometimes by to), also by in and from..
Failure :: Failure (n.) A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business..
Bund :: Bund (n.) An embankment against inundation.
Pitch :: Pitch (v. t.) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway..
Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor..
Redeem :: Redeem (v. t.) To regain by performing the obligation or condition stated; to discharge the obligation mentioned in, as a promissory note, bond, or other evidence of debt; as, to redeem bank notes with coin..
Credit Mobilier :: Credit mobilier () A joint stock company, formed for general banking business, or for the construction of public works, by means of loans on personal estate, after the manner of the credit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed..
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