banking

The business of managing a bank.

The occupation of managing or working in a bank.

Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

Investment banking.

She became an analyst in banking after graduation, choosing that career path over sales and trading.

A horizontal turn.

A mechanical component to prevent vibration in a timepiece, etc.

The balances of all moveable time-keepers, the chronometer excepted, are prevented from vibrating beyond the proper arc by what is called bankings. The inferior escapements are very easily banked; a pin fixed in the balance, coming in contact with one or two studs, is sufficient for that purpose. […]