Word Finder - banks

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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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• banker

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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.

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An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.

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An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).

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the banks of Newfoundland

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

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The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.

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An incline, a hill.

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A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.

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The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.

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The face of the coal at which miners are working.

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A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.

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The ground at the top of a shaft.

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Ores are brought to bank.

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To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.

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To cause (an aircraft) to bank.

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To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.

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to bank sand

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To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.

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To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.

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To pass by the banks of.

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To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.

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A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.

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a bank of pay phones

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A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.

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A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.

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A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.

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(order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.

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A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.

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A bench or seat for judges in court.

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The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc.

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A kind of table used by printers.

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A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.

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Slang for money