bank (original) (raw)
bank noun [C] (MASS)
bank noun [C] (ROWS)
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bank noun [C] (STORE)
Idiom
bank verb (MONEY)
bank with I used to bank with Lloyd's.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
bank verb (TURN)
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bank verb (MASS)
bank verb (IN SPORT)
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Phrasal verb
(Definition of bank from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
bank | American Dictionary
bank noun [C] (ORGANIZATION)
bank noun [C] (RAISED GROUND)
bank verb (USE BANK)
bank verb (TURN)
Phrasal verb
(Definition of bank from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
bank | Business English
in the bank At that time, we had very little money in the bank.
take sth out of the bank They had taken all of their cash out of the bank.
I need to go to the bank at lunch time.
See also
bank with sb I've banked with Lloyd's for many years.
(Definition of bank from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of bank
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The lower degree of depth-mediated inhibition in no-till may increase the percentage of active seed bank, thereby reducing the amount of older seeds.
He had waited without moving, standing stock-still on the bank, peering into the water, hoping for another glimpse, a ripple in the water's surface even.
The bank will only use the less costly of the two methods.
Statutory regulation played a relatively minor role in the prudential control of banks.
Urban respondents were more likely to owe money to a loan-agent, and less likely to owe it to a bank.
They campaigned for a change in the law and encouraged banks and specialist brokers to adopt professional standards.
The blood banks are legally accountable for blood safety.
Large numbers of mice established by in vitro fertilization with cryopreserved spermatozoa: implications and applications for genetic resource banks, mutagenesis screens and mouse backcrosses.
Otherwise, for its risk-averse nonmoving clientele, the bank will always prefer cash reserves over storage; the latter will then never be used in equilibrium.
However, we have found that bank capital tends to move counter-cyclically: that is, banks tend to increase capital during economic downturns.
While being more permissive in regard to economically stronger banks, they do not allow weaker (poorly capitalized) banks to participate in credit expansion.
To make things worse, the collapse of weaker banks can have systemic repercussions if it sparks bank panics that also undermine economically ' 'healthier' ' banks.
Just in months, the general literature mood changed dramatically as a river breaks its banks.
_Bank_-issued bills of exchange in gold are the perfectly elastic currency.
The other end of the anode holder is connected to the positive plate of the capacitor bank through an atmospheric air spark gap.
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Collocations with bank
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However, the average mortgage lasts approximately seven years, whereas a bank customer is usually there for life.
The bank failure had severe repercussions for the town.
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That they should so disproportionately have been the victims of this bank fraud is truly tragic.
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