bank
Noun
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is a type of: financial institution, financial organisation, financial organization - an institution (public or private) that collects funds (from the public or other institutions) and invests them in financial assetssubtypes:
- credit union - a cooperative depository financial institution whose members can obtain loans from their combined savings
- federal reserve bank, reserve bank - one of 12 regional banks that monitor and act as depositories for banks in their region
- agent bank - a bank that acts as an agent for a foreign bank
- commercial bank, full service bank - a financial institution that accepts demand deposits and makes loans and provides other services for the public
- state bank - a bank chartered by a state rather than by the federal government
- agent bank, lead bank - a bank named by a lending syndicate of several banks to protect their interests
- member bank - a bank that is a member of the Federal Reserve System
- acquirer, merchant bank - a credit card processing bank; merchants receive credit for credit card receipts less a processing fee
- acquirer - a corporation gaining financial control over another corporation or financial institution through a payment in cash or an exchange of stock
- thrift institution - a depository financial institution intended to encourage personal savings and home buying
- home loan bank - one of 11 regional banks that monitor and make short-term credit advances to thrift institutions in their region
belongs to: banking industry, banking system - banks collectively -
is a type of: ridge - a long narrow natural elevation or striation
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is a type of: array - an orderly arrangement
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is a type of: backlog, reserve, stockpile - something kept back or saved for future use or a special purposesubtypes:
- blood bank - a place for storing whole blood or blood plasma
- eye bank - a place for storing and preserving corneas that are obtained from human corpses immediately after death; used for corneal transplantation to patients with corneal defects
- food bank - a place where food is contributed and made available to those in need
- soil bank - land retired from crop cultivation and planted with soil-building crops; government subsidies are paid to farmers for their retired land
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is a type of: cash in hand, finances, funds, monetary resource, pecuniary resource - assets in the form of money
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is a type of: container - any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)subtypes: penny bank, piggy bank - a child's coin bank (often shaped like a pig)
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is a type of: deposit, depositary, depository, repository - a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeepinghas: bank vault, vault - a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuablessame as: bank building
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is a type of: airplane maneuver, flight maneuver - a maneuver executed by an aircraftsubtypes: vertical bank - a bank so steep that the plane's lateral axis approaches the vertical
Verb
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is a type of: tip - cause to tilt
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is a type of: transact - conduct business
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is a type of: act - discharge one's dutiesverb group: bank - be in the banking business
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verb group: bank - act as the banker in a game or in gambling
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is a type of: give - transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebodysubtypes: redeposit - deposit once againsame as: deposit
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is a type of: cover - provide with a covering or cause to be covered
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is a type of: trust - have confidence or faith in
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- Verbs of buying, selling, owning
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