bank
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
gambling
games
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.
Proto-Germanic *bankiz
Proto-West Germanic *banki
Lombardic bankbor.
Italian bancabor.
Middle French banqueder.
English bank
Inherited 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).
Inflected forms:
form: banks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: banck
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bancke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: banke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: banks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: banking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: banked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: banked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: banck
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bancke
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: banke
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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”.
gloss: A branch office of such an institution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An underwriter or controller of a card game.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.
gloss: The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Money; profit.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: Military dude was working for a drug dealer, right? and making good bank with it—he was making good money.
gloss: In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-compounds
examples: blood bank; data bank; sperm bank
gloss: A device used to store coins or currency.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank.
gloss: To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He banked with Barclays.
the sort of face you would happily bank with
gloss: To put into a bank.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I’m going to bank the money.
gloss: To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Johnny banked some coke for me.
gloss: To provide banking services to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They proposed an ambitious plan to bank people in remote rural communities.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:bank.
Related words: bancassurance
banco
bankrupt
Derived words: bankable
banked
banker
bank on
debank
double-banked
banking
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: bank
lang: Czech
word: bank
lang: Finnish
word: pankki
lang: German
word: Bank
lang: Polish
word: bank
lang: Portuguese
word: banca
lang: Russian
word: банк
roman: bank
lang: Slovak
word: bank