Definition of bank

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Definition of bank

  • a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities (noun)

    Examples

    1. he cashed a check at the bank
    2. that bank holds the mortgage on my home

    Synonyms

    1. banking company
    2. banking concern
    3. depository financial institution
  • have faith or confidence in (verb)

    Synonyms

    1. bet
    2. calculate
    3. count
    4. depend
    5. look
    6. reckon
    7. rely
    8. swear
  • put into a bank account (verb)

    Synonyms

    1. deposit
  • a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home (noun)

    Examples

    1. the coin bank was empty

    Synonyms

    1. coin bank
    2. money box
    3. savings bank
  • 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 (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. camber
    2. cant
  • a building in which the business of banking transacted (noun)

    Examples

    1. the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon

    Synonyms

    1. bank building
  • act as the banker in a game or in gambling (verb)
  • a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning) (noun)

    Examples

    1. the plane went into a steep bank
  • a long ridge or pile (noun)

    Examples

    1. a huge bank of earth
  • an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers (noun)

    Examples

    1. he operated a bank of switches
  • a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies) (noun)
  • be in the banking business (verb)
  • cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning (verb)

    Examples

    1. bank a fire
  • do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank (verb)

    Examples

    1. Where do you bank in this town?
  • enclose with a bank (verb)

    Examples

    1. bank roads
  • sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water) (noun)

    Examples

    1. they pulled the canoe up on the bank
    2. he sat on the bank of the river and watched the currents
  • the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games (noun)

    Examples

    1. he tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo
  • tip laterally (verb)

    Examples

    1. the pilot had to bank the aircraft

See definition of bank in Merriam Webster