bank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæŋk/
note: /æ/ raising
ipa: [beɪŋk]
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: banks
form: banck
form: bancke
form: banke
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.
Proto-Germanic *bankiz
Proto-West Germanic *banki
Lombardic bankbor.
Italian bancabor.
Middle French banqueder.
English bank
From Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of bench, banc, and banco.
For the bench-bank relation, compare typologically Russian ла́вка (lávka), прила́вок (prilávok).
Senses: examples: text: 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”.
ref: 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:
glosses: An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
synonyms: Lombard house
glosses: A branch office of such an institution.
synonyms: banker
banque
glosses: An underwriter or controller of a card game.
examples: text: Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Usury”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
topics: gambling
games
glosses: The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
examples: text: Military dude was working for a drug dealer, right? and making good bank with it—he was making good money.
ref: 2010, Paul Bouchard, Enlistment, page 113:
glosses: Money; profit.
glosses: In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
examples: text: blood bank; data bank; sperm bank
glosses: A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
examples: text: If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank.
glosses: A device used to store coins or currency.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: antibank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: at the bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: autobank
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word: baby bank
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word: bad bank
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word: bancorporation
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: bank-a-ball
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word: bankability
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word: bank account
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: bank balance
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word: bank bill
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word: bankbook
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word: bank-bursting
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word: bank card
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word: bankcard
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word: bank charge
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word: bank cheque
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word: bank clerk
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word: bank court
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word: bank craps
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word: bank credit
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word: bank discount
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word: bank draft
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word: bank effect
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word: bank engine
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word: bankerage
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word: bankful
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word: bankfull
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word: Bank Giro
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word: bank giro
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word: Bankhead
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word: Bank Holiday
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word: bank holiday
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word: bank interest
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word: bank job
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word: banklike
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word: bank machine
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word: bank manager
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word: bank mix
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word: bank money
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word: bank night
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word: bank note
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word: banknote
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word: bankocracy
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word: bank of deposit
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: bank of issue
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word: bank of mum and dad
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word: bank paper
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word: bank parlour
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word: bank post
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word: bank rate
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word: bank receipt
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word: bank reserves
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word: bank-robber
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: bank robber
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word: bank robbery
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word: bankroll
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word: bank roll
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word: bank run
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word: bank shot
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word: bank slip
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word: bank statement
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word: bankster
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word: bank stock
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word: bank switching
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word: bank token
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: bank transfer
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: bankward
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: Barclays Bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: biobank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: blood bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: bottle bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: branch bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: break the bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: Brooksbank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: central bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: challenger bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: claybank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: clearing bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: codbank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: coin bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: commercial bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: court in bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: cry all the way to the bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: cryobank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: cyberbank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: data bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: databank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: de-bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: diaper bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: DINB
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: direct bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: e-bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: egg bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: Eurobank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: European Central Bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: eye bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: eyebank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: Fairbank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: Fairbanks
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: favor bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: food bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: gene bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: heat bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: in bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: interbank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: intrabank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: investment bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: joint-stock bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: land bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: landbank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: laugh all the way to the bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: letter bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: load bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: make bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: mechanical bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: megabank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: member bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: memory bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: merchant bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: microbank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: multibank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: mutual savings bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: nappy bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: narrow bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: national bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: neobank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: netbank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: nonbank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: optical bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: overbanked
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: paper bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: pay by bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: penny bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: phone bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: photobank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: pig bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: piggy bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: potbank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: power bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: powerbank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: prime bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: private bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: railbank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: reserve bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: retail bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: run on the bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: Russian Bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: safe as the Bank of England
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: savings-bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: savings bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: seed bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: serobank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: shadow bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: soundbank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: spank bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: sperm bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: state bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: Stonebank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: superbank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: Swiss bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: take to the bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: testbank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: time bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: timebank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: treebank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: trunkback
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: trustee savings bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: unbanked
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: universal bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: voicebank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: vote bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: wank bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: wildcat bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: World Bank
sense: Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
word: zombie bank
Related terms: bancassurance
banco
bankrupt