Word Finder - bank

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

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A branch office of such an institution.

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An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque.

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

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

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Money; profit

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In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.

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A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.

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blood bank; sperm bank; data bank

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A device used to store coins or currency.

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If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank.

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

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He banked with Barclays.

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To put into a bank.

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I'm going to bank the money.

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To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.

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Johnny banked some coke for me.

A bank of clouds was building to the northeast.

Her bank account was rarely over two hundred.

The bank was within reach.

She sat on the river bank across from a series of wide, large steps leading up a hill to the park where the Arch stood, framed against a black sky.

How could a man with four million in the bank be in financial danger?

Seating herself on a low bank, she studied the souls.

She stretched and pulled herself onto the bank, shaking hard with cold.

Mr. Catlin at the bank says he's as honest as they come.

Within an hour, they were riding side-by-side down the south bank of the creek, searching for the blocked area.

Cushing himself swam to the swamps on the river bank, and after wading among them for hours reached a Federal picket boat.

About 80,000 went in payments on all the estates to the Land Bank, about 30,000 went for the upkeep of the estate near Moscow, the town house, and the allowance to the three princesses; about 15,000 was given in pensions and the same amount for asylums; 150,000 alimony was sent to the countess; about 70,000 went for interest on debts.

An overseas bank account in the company name contained a balance of one million dollars as startup funds for us to secure quarters for the enterprise.

From the airport window, she watched a cloud bank build in the northwest.

The town of Barwani is situated near the left bank of the Nerbudda.

He walked up and down the river bank, leading his horse behind him; but he kept his eyes turned always toward the dim, dark spot which he knew was the old North Church.

If you would know the history of these homesteads, inquire at the bank where they are mortgaged.

After breakfast, she closed her account at the bank and turned in her resignation.

She waded to the bank and picked up her shoes and stockings.

I guess he had some bucks at one time—back when he bought all this land—but his bank account never held a candle to mine.

With one last look at the river, she turned away and climbed the bank clumsily before heading towards the road leading from the bridge to her home.

I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery, the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank; and, as a necessary part of the machinery, they kept a bell, a big gun, and a fire-engine, at convenient places; and the houses were so arranged as to make the most of mankind, in lanes and fronting one another, so that every traveller had to run the gauntlet, and every man, woman, and child might get a lick at him.

The trio was far more comfortable now, six months later, with enough money in the bank to keep the wolves away, and expectations, if not of prosperity, of at least a reasonably comfortable coming season.

The poor guy's probably some henpecked bank teller who rented this place trying to shack up with a honey and struck out.

Deidre emerged into the living room and turned around once completely, not expecting the views of the city from the bank of windows along one wall.

Cynthia smiled, remembering the early-days' confusion of opening the bed and breakfast, two newlyweds and one old man, operating on piggy bank finances and not an ounce of experience among them.

When they paused on the bank, she could stand the pain no longer.

In less than a week they would be married, but somehow it seemed a violation of his bank account.

He rose and crossed to the fireplace and began to bank the fire as the hall clock struck eleven times.

It is thrown across the gorge at a height of two hundred and fifty-eight feet above the water and is supported on each bank by towers of solid rock, which are eight hundred feet apart.

I cleaned out our bank accounts and wrapped the withdrawal slips in the same pair of shorts and pinned it to his pillow with a steak knife and took off.

She found herself walking along the bank, gaze on the souls that were moving.

I was like one who never casts a look behind, who hesitates before some Rubicon to be crossed, but having touched the farther bank sees no more the shore he has just left."

Was he going to the bank?

Spain, in the province of Leon; situated near the right bank of the river Tuerto, and at the junction of the Salamanca-Corunna and Leon-Astorga railways.

He threw all the influence of the government against Crispi, who was charged with complicity in embezzlements perpetrated by Favilla, managing director of the Bologna branch of the Bank of Naples.

Sometimes, however, a sharp incline occurring on an otherwise easy line is not reckoned as the ruling gradient, trains heavier than could be drawn up it by a single engine being helped by an assistant or " bank " engine; sometimes also " momentum " or " velocity " grades, steeper than the ruling gradient, are permitted for short distances in cases where a train can approach at full speed and thus surmount them by the aid of its momentum.

Tortosa is for the most part an old walled town on the left bank of the river, with narrow, crooked and ill-paved streets, in which the houses are lofty and massively built of granite.

To promote commerce there are a stock and produce exchange (Berta), a national bank, privileged to issue notes, and several other banking establishments.

It lies on the left bank of the South Esk, 74 m.

It is situated on the right bank of the Mincio near the bridge.

Tipperary, Ireland, in the east parliamentary division, on the north (left) bank of the Suir, 144 m.

The Thirty Years' War exercised a most prejudicial effect upon the district of the Rhine; and the peace of Westphalia gave France a footing on the left bank of the hitherto exclusively German river by the acquisition of Alsace.

On the 11th of May 1893 he denounced the treaty of Uccialli, but the Giolitti cabillet, absorbed by the bank scandals, paid no heed to his action.

The town lies on the right bank of the Agno, which divides the province of Naples from that of Caserta, 90 ft.

Narcondam, Barren Island and the Invisible Bank, a great danger of these seas, are in a line almost parallel to the Andamans inclining towards them from north to south.

It is situated on the right bank of the Moselle, about 6 m.

By the peace of Luneville in 1801 France annexed all the territories of Trier on the left bank of the Rhine, and in 1802 the elector abdicated.

The Treveran territories on the right bank of the Rhine were secularized and given to Nassau-Weilburg in 1803, and in 1814 nearly the whole of the former electoral dominions were given to Prussia.

On the left bank of the Lys is the Oudeburg (s'Gravenstein, Château des Contes), the former castle of the first counts of Flanders, dating from 1180 and now restored.

The burgh, which stretches for a mile along the south shore of the Firth of Forth, is intersected by the Esk and embraces the village of Fisherrow on the left bank of the river.