Definition of bank

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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..

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Expansion :: Expansion (n.) Enlargement or extension of business transactions; esp., increase of the circulation of bank notes..
Utter :: Utter (a.) hence, to put in circulation, as money; to put off, as currency; to cause to pass in trade; -- often used, specifically, of the issue of counterfeit notes or coins, forged or fraudulent documents, and the like; as, to utter coin or bank notes..
Marsebanker :: Marsebanker (n.) The menhaden.
Bank :: Bank (n.) A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court..
Dike :: Dike (n.) An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
Teller :: Teller (n.) An officer of a bank who receives and counts over money paid in, and pays money out on checks..
Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
Burse :: Burse (n.) An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse..
Issue :: Issue (n.) That which passes, flows, or is sent out; the whole quantity sent forth or emitted at one time; as, an issue of bank notes; the daily issue of a newspaper..
Turf :: Turf (v. t.) To cover with turf or sod; as, to turf a bank, of the border of a terrace..
Bluffy :: Bluffy (a.) Having bluffs, or bold, steep banks..
Clinometer :: Clinometer (n.) An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level..
Bank :: 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..
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..
Lombard :: Lombard (n.) A money lender or banker; -- so called because the business of banking was first carried on in London by Lombards.
Fail :: Fail (v. i.) To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent..
Sea Bank :: Sea bank () The seashore.
Banker :: Banker (n.) A ditcher; a drain digger.
Cessionary :: Cessionary (a.) Having surrendered the effects; as, a cessionary bankrupt..
Sea Breach :: Sea breach () A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea.
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