bank

An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.

Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.[…]Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.

A branch office of such an institution.

An underwriter or controller of a card game.

A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.

Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.

The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.

To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.

He banked with Barclays.

the sort of face you would happily bank with

To put into a bank.

I’m going to bank the money.

To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.

Johnny banked some coke for me.

To provide banking services to.

They proposed an ambitious plan to bank people in remote rural communities.

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An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.

Tiber trembled underneath her banks.

On the opposite bank of the river other Chinese units attacked Taoshih and Yunmeng north-west of Hankow.

An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth

the banks of Newfoundland

A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.

The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.

An incline, a hill.

This is the hardest duty on the railway, for the trains are heavy and there are some long 1 in 40 banks.

It's just as quick out of the blocks. The five-car unit has three engines, giving it 2,820hp to play with, so the once-'feared' Devon banks of Hemerdon, Rattery and Dainton are child's play to these trains.