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Banking

noun

Engaging in the business of keeping money for savings and checking accounts or for exchange or for issuing loans and credit etc..

Transacting business with a bank; depositing or withdrawing funds or requesting a loan etc..

Bank

verb

(past & past part. banked; pres. part. banking)

Tip laterally.

Enclose with a bank.

Do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank.

Act as the banker in a game or in gambling.

Be in the banking business.

Put into a bank account. Synonym: deposit.

Cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning.

Have confidence or faith in. Synonyms: rely, swear, trust. "Rely on your friends" , "Bank on your good education" , "I swear by my grandmother's recipes"

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"Banking" Quotes from Famous Books

... college, Emile Le Grande intended to study law, and for months endeavored to concentrate his mind upon the prosaic, practical teachings of Blackstone. The effort proved unsuccessful, and then procuring employment in a well-established banking house, he applied himself to business with commendable assiduity. Yet alive in his heart was the passion so long nourished for the beautiful Jewess. He still lost no opportunity of assuring her again and again of his ...

— Leah Mordecai • Mrs. Belle Kendrick Abbott

... left, and keeping to the cliff's edge, they presently came to an end. They found themselves looking down on a great semi-circular space caused by the collapse of the cliff. It had smashed right across the gorge, banking the up-stream water back in a pool which overflowed in a rapid. The slip had happened long ago. It was grassed over, but the face of the cliffs that stood about the semicircle was still almost fresh-looking and white as on the day when the rock must have broken and slid down. Starkly exposed ...

— Tales of Space and Time • Herbert George Wells

... to me that if it became public knowledge that we carry no insurance, banking and financial institutions generally may come to feel that our conservatism is open to criticism and that they are rating our stock somewhat too highly as collateral. It is intimated that some of us might ...

— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble

... no good roads, there were no accurate maps, there was no trained staff. The general had to be everything and to do everything himself. The financial resources of the powers were small: their regular revenues soon failed; and they had to fly for loans to great banking houses, such as that of the Fuggers at Augsburgh, so that the money power became the arbiter even of Imperial elections. The country on which the armies lived was soon eaten up by their rapine. Hence the feebleness of the operations, the absence of anything which Von Moltke would ...

— Lectures and Essays • Goldwin Smith

... puzzled over curious, dim, ghostly circles, or rings, in the valleys, where neither grass nor any other vegetation had gained root even after all these years. The old-timers told me these had been made by the Indians banking dirt around their lodges. A few scattered tepee frames still stood, here and there, in sheltered groves along the river. Occasionally I picked up arrowheads—once upon a high-flung ledge I came upon a score or more. How my imagination soared! Here, no doubt, ...

— A Mountain Boyhood • Joe Mills

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