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Noun: banking  bang-king
  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.
Verb: bank  bangk
  1. Tip laterally
    "the pilot had to bank the aircraft"
     
  2. Enclose with a bank
    "bank roads"
     
  3. Do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank
    "Where do you bank in this town?"
     
  4. Act as the banker in a game or in gambling
     
  5. Be in the banking business
     
  6. Put into a bank account
    "She banks her paycheque every month";
    - deposit
     
  7. Cover with ashes so as to control the rate of burning
    "bank a fire"
     
  8. Have faith or confidence in
    - count, bet, depend, swear, rely, look, calculate, reckon

Derived forms: bankings

Type of: act, close in, cover, do work, enclose, finance, give, inclose, shut in, tip, transact, trust, work

Antonym: draw

Encyclopedia: Banking, Insurance and General Workers Union

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