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bank1 noun 1 a financial organization which keeps money in accounts for its clients, lends money, exchanges currency, etc. 2 a box in which money can be saved, especially by children. See also piggy bank. 3 a place where something is stored or collected for later use. Also in compounds • blood bank • databank. 4 in some games: a stock of money controlled by one of the players (the banker1). verb (banked, banking) 1 to put (money) into a bank. 2 intrans to have a bank account • They bank with Lloyds. break the bank in gambling: to win from eg a casino the sum of money fixed as the limit it is willing to lose in any one day.
ETYMOLOGY: 15c, meaning 'a moneylender's shop': from French banque.
bank on something to rely on it or expect it. |
bank1 noun 1 a financial organization which keeps money in accounts for its clients, lends money, exchanges currency, etc. 2 a box in which money can be saved, especially by children. See also piggy bank. 3 a place where something is stored or collected for later use. Also in compounds • blood bank • databank. 4 in some games: a stock of money controlled by one of the players (the banker1). verb (banked, banking) 1 to put (money) into a bank. 2 intrans to have a bank account • They bank with Lloyds. break the bank in gambling: to win from eg a casino the sum of money fixed as the limit it is willing to lose in any one day.
ETYMOLOGY: 15c, meaning 'a moneylender's shop': from French banque.
bank on something to rely on it or expect it. |
bank1 noun 1 a financial organization which keeps money in accounts for its clients, lends money, exchanges currency, etc. 2 a box in which money can be saved, especially by children. See also piggy bank. 3 a place where something is stored or collected for later use. Also in compounds • blood bank • databank. 4 in some games: a stock of money controlled by one of the players (the banker1). verb (banked, banking) 1 to put (money) into a bank. 2 intrans to have a bank account • They bank with Lloyds. break the bank in gambling: to win from eg a casino the sum of money fixed as the limit it is willing to lose in any one day.
ETYMOLOGY: 15c, meaning 'a moneylender's shop': from French banque.
bank on something to rely on it or expect it. |
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