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Banking   /bˈæŋkɪŋ/   Listen
Banking

noun
1.
Engaging in the business of keeping money for savings and checking accounts or for exchange or for issuing loans and credit etc..
2.
Transacting business with a bank; depositing or withdrawing funds or requesting a loan etc..



Bank

verb
(past & past part. banked; pres. part. banking)
1.
Tip laterally.
2.
Enclose with a bank.
3.
Do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank.
4.
Act as the banker in a game or in gambling.
5.
Be in the banking business.
6.
Put into a bank account.  Synonym: deposit.  Antonym: withdraw.
7.
Cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning.
8.
Have confidence or faith in.  Synonyms: rely, swear, trust.  "Rely on your friends" , "Bank on your good education" , "I swear by my grandmother's recipes"  Antonyms: distrust, mistrust.



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"Banking" Quotes from Famous Books



... interstices between the blocks. The chinking is, however, usually done by the women and children as the building progresses, and additional protection secured from the winds in very cold weather by banking up a large wooden snow shovel, the snow at the base often being piled to the depth of three or four feet. This makes the igloo perfectly impervious to the wind in the most tempestuous weather. When the house is completed, the builders are walled in. ...
— Schwatka's Search • William H. Gilder

... Del Ferice had expected to have his correspondence examined, he could not have arranged matters better for his own safety. To trace the drafts to the person who sent them was not an easy business; it was impossible to introduce a spy into the banking-house in Florence, and among the many drafts daily bought and sold, it was almost impossible to identify, without the aid of the banker's books, the person who chanced to buy any particular one. The addresses were, it is true, uniformly written ...
— Saracinesca • F. Marion Crawford

... Cooperative Banking Section: composed of financial experts, sociologists, and mathematicians; its task being to help with expert ...
— Manhood of Humanity. • Alfred Korzybski

... surely nothing save genuine zeal, and fidelity to a strong purpose could have carried them through the experiences that awaited them. The mission school was still small and struggling. But for the almost heroic energies of its superintendent, a clerk in a city banking house, it could not have been carried on at all. He was a small, slight, fragile-looking man, but he had a heart big enough for a giant, and having consecrated his spare hours to this most unattractive of all phases of Christian work, he carried it ...
— Bert Lloyd's Boyhood - A Story from Nova Scotia • J. McDonald Oxley

... disappointment from among the German sailors, who apparently had been banking on dealing a severe blow to the British. There were several questions, which Jack answered ...
— The Boy Allies Under the Sea • Robert L. Drake


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