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Definition: Bank |
BankNoun1. A financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities; "he cashed a check at the bank"; "that bank holds the mortgage on my home". 2. Sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water); "they pulled the canoe up on the bank"; "he sat on the bank of the river and watched the currents". 3. A supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies). 4. A building in which commercial banking is transacted; "the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon". 5. An arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers; "he operated a bank of switches". 6. A container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home; "the coin bank was empty". 7. A long ridge or pile; "a huge bank of earth". 8. The funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games; "he tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo". 9. A slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force. 10. : a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning); "the plane went into a steep bank". Verb1. Tip laterally; of boats and 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. 7. Cover with ashes, of fires, to control the rate of burning. 8. Have confidence or faith in; "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bank" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Bank \Bank\ (b[a^][ng]k), noun. [Old English banke; akin to English bench, and probably of Scandinavian origin.; compare to Icelandic bakki. See Bench.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | A logical unit of memory. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Financial institution authorized or chartered by its national regulatory authority to be designated as a bank. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Dream Interpretation | To see vacant tellers, foretells business losses. Giving out gold money, denotes carelessness; receiving it, great gain and prosperity. To see silver and bank-notes accumulated, increase of honor and fortune. You will enjoy the highest respect of all classes. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Electrical Engineering | In automatic switching, an assembly of fixed contacts, with which wipers engage, forming a rigid unit in a selector or similar device. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A group of relays with a common connection for scanning or multiplexing applications. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A number of capacitor units connected so as to act together. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Finance | When lower case in this glossary, refers to a commercial bank. A commercial bank is an institution that accepts demand deposits and makes commercial loans. (references) |
| When capitalized in this glossary refers to one of the 12 Federal Home Loan Banks. (references) | |
Food & Agriculture | Natural or artificial hillock. Artificial banks are sometimes constructed with the slope oriented so as to secure maximum sunlight for the vines planted thereon. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | The sloping margin of, or the ground bordering, a stream. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The inclined natural or artificial boundary of a watercourse. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Hydrologic | The margins of a channel. Banks are called right or left as viewed facing in the direction of the flow. (references) |
Literature | Bank A money-changer's bench or table. (Italian banco or banca.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. A large pile of mineral material on the ground surface, as in heap leaching. b. Several like pieces of equipment set close together, as a bank of flotation cells, hydrocyclones, or generators. c. The surface around the mouth of a shaft d. The whole or sometimes only one side or one end of a working place underground. e. A hill or brow. f. A road along the coal face formed by the coal on one side and the waste or packs on the other; thus, a double-unit face has a right and left bank. g. A generally steeply sloping mass of any earthy or rock material rising above the digging level from which the soil or rock is to be extracted from its natural or blasted position in an open-pit mine or quarry. Syn:bench faceh. Terracelike bench from which ore is obtained in an open-pit mine. (references) |
Post & Telecom | Attitude of aerodyne which, after partial roll, is flown with wings or rotor not laterally level. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A bank is a financial institution that provides banking and other financial services. By the term bank is generally understood an institution that holds a banking license. Banking licenses are granted by financial supervision authorities and provides rights to conduct the most fundamental banking services such as accepting deposits and making loans. There are also financial institutions that provides certain banking services without meeting the legal definition of a bank, a so called Non-bank.
The word bank is derived from the Italian banca, which is derived from German and means bench. The terms bankrupt and "broke" are similarly derived from banca rotta, which refers to an out of business bank, having its bench physically broken. Money lenders in Northern Italy originally did business in open areas, or big open rooms, with each lender working from his own bench or table.
Typically, a bank generates profits from transaction fees on financial services or the interest spread on resources it holds in trust for clients while paying them interest on the asset.
Services typically offered by banks
Although the type of services offered by a bank depends upon the type of bank and the country, services provided usually include:
- Lend out money to companies and individuals (see moneylender)
- Issue checks and credit cards
- Fascilitate money transactions
- Issue debit cards
- Storage of valuables, particularly in a safety deposit box
Types of banks
There several different types of banks including:
- Central banks usually control monetary policy and may be the lender of last resort in the event of a crisis
- Investment banks underwrite stock and bond issues and advise on mergers
- Merchant banks engage in trade financing
- Private banks manage the assets of "high net worth" (rich) individuals
- Savings banks write mortgages exclusively
- Offshore banks are banks located in jurisdictions with low taxation and regulation
- Commercial banks are otherwise undistinguished
Banks are prone to crisis
The traditional bank has an inherent tendency to crisis. This is because the bank borrows short term and lends leveraged long term. The sum of deposits and the banks capital will never equal more than a modest percentage of the loans the bank has outstanding.Even if liquidity is not a concern, if there is no run on the bank, banks can simply choose a bad portfolio of loans, and lose more money then they have. The US Savings and Loan Crisis in the early 1990s is such an incedent.
Role in the monetary transmission mechanism
When a bank takes a deposit for $1 and then lends $5, where do the other $4 come from? The answer, which astonishes most people when they realize it, is that the bank is allowed to make it up. This is the central issue of monetary policy. Instead of printing money, this mechanism of how much extra a bank can lend is the central way of controlling how much money there is the economy.
Regulation
The combination of the instability of banks as well as their important facilitating role in the economy lead to banking being thoroughly regulated. The amount of capital a bank is required to hold is a function of the amount and quality of the loans outstanding. Major banks are subject to the Basel Capital Accord proglemated by the Bank for International Settlements. In addition, banks are usually required to purchase deposit insurance to make sure smaller investors are not wiped out in the event of a bank failure.Another reason banks are thoroughly regulated is that ultimately, no government can allow the banking system to fail. There is almost always a lender of last resort - in the event of a liquidity crisis (where short term obligations exceed short term assets) some element of government will step in to lend banks enough money to avoid bankruptcy.
How banks are viewed
Banks have a long history of being characterized as heartless, rapacious creditors, hounding honest folk down on their luck for the last dime. See Populism.In United States history, the National Bank was a major political issue during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. Jackson fought against the bank as a symbol of greed and profit-mongering, antithetical to the democratic ideals of the United States.
Profitability
Banks in the United States are by far the most profitable corporations there are, especially relative to the small market shares they have. This amount is even higher if one counts the credit divisions of companies like Ford, which are responsible for a large amount of those companies profits. For example, the largest bank, Citigroup, which for the past 3 years has made more profit then any other company in the world, only has a 5 percent market share. Now if Citigroup were to be as dominant in its industry as a Home Depot, Starbucks, or Wal Mart in their respective industries, with a 30 percent market share, it would make more money then the top ten non-banking US industries combined. In the past 10 years in the United States, banks have taken many measures to ensure their profitability dominance. Firstly this includes the Gram-Leach-Biley Act, which allows banks again to merge with investment and insurance houses. This allows them to make profit no matter what the economy is like, because people will almost always put their money in one of those 3 options. Secondly, they have introduced risk based pricing on loans, which means charging higher interest rates for those people who they deem more risky to default on loans. This dramatically helps to offset the losses from bad loans. Thirdly, they are by far the main method of payment processing. Since there have been no government issued smart cards, which would be the equivalent of cash, bank debit, check, and credit card use has been the main method of exchanging money. This allows banks to essentially tax all movement of money, and the movement of money is essentially independent of the state of the economy. The banks' main obstacle to making more money is new government regulation.
History of Banking
- Florentine banking - The Medicis and Pittis amongs others
- Banknotes - Introduction of paper money
- Bank of Amsterdam
- Bank of Sweden - The rise of the national banks
- Bank of England - The evolution of modern central banking policies
- Bank of America - The invention of centralized check and payment processing technology
- United States Banking
See Also
- Currency
- Economics
- Finance
- Money
- Piggy Bank
- Venture capital
- SWIFT
Related topics
- list of banks
- list of finance topics
- list of accounting topics
- list of management topics
- list of human resource management topics
- list of marketing topics
- list of economics topics
- list of information technology management topics
- list of production topics
- list of business law topics
- list of business ethics, political economy, and philosophy of business topics
- list of business theorists
- list of economists
- list of corporate leaders
- list of companies
Alternative meaning #1
Bank can also refer to the area of London close to the Bank of England, and to Bank tube station.
Alternative meaning #2
Bank can be the action of an aircraft when it lowers one wing and raises the other.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bank."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Bank and Monument are two interlinked London Underground stations, on opposite ends of King William Street in the City of London. The two stations are effectively one station with two separate entrances and names. The complex is sometimes known as the Bank-Monument complex.
Bank tube station with the Bank of England in the background
Bank is named after the Bank of England, which it is close to. On the Central Line, it is between St Paul's and Liverpool Street. On the Northern Line, London Bridge and Moorgate. It is the only other station apart from Waterloo on the Waterloo and City Line. It is a terminus for the Docklands Light Railway, the next station being Shadwell.
The Waterloo & City platforms are connected to the Central Line booking hall by two slightly inclined moving walkways.
Monument, named after the Monument to the Great Fire of London, by which it is situated, is on the Circle and District Lines between Cannon Street and Tower Hill.
History
The first part of the complex to be opened was Monument, in 1884. Next, in 1898, came the Waterloo & City Railway's station, then known as City. The first station to be known as Bank opened in early 1900 when the City and South London Railway (now part of the Northern Line) opened its new extension to Moorgate. As a result of this the earlier terminus, King William Street, was closed. The eastern terminus of the Central London Railway (today's Central Line) followed on July 30, 1900. The deep-level stations were linked by underground passages at an early stage, but the escalator link to Monument had to wait until 1933. The DLR arrived at Bank in 1991, bringing with it a connection from the Central Line to Monument without walking down the Northern Line platform.
Trivia
- London's first public toilet was located close to the Royal Exchange exit of Bank station.
- The Bank of England exit of the station is built into the Bank itself, and is the only grade I listed building on the Underground network.
External links
- A graphic of the Monument / Bank station complex
- Bank Station from the Open Guide to London
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bank and Monument tube stations."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| BA | English | Bank of Abyssinia | Finance |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: BankSynonyms: bank building (n), banking company (n), banking concern (n), camber (n), cant (n), coin bank (n), depository financial institution (n), money box (n), savings bank (n), deposit (v), rely (v), swear (v), trust (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: distrust (v), withdraw (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Defense | Safeguard; (safety); balistraria; bunker, screen; (shelter); camouflage; (concealment); fortification; munition, muniment; trench, foxhole; bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment; kila; dike, dyke; parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment; earth work, field-work; fence, wall dead wall, contravallation; paling; (inclosure); palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar; barrier, barricade; boom; portcullis, chevaux de frise; abatis, abattis, abbatis; vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp; escarp, counter-scarp; glacis, casemate; vallation, vanfos. |
Land | Coast, shore, scar, strand, beach; playa; bank, lea; seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach; ironbound coast; loom of the land; derelict; innings; alluvium, alluvion; ancon. |
Obliquity | Acclivity, rise, ascent, gradient, khudd, rising ground, hill, bank, declivity, downhill, dip, fall, devexity; gentle slope, rapid slope, easy ascent, easy descent; shelving beach; talus; monagne Russe; facilis descensus averni. |
Pitfall | Noun: rocks, reefs, coral reef, sunken rocks, snags; sands, quicksands; syrt, syrtis; Goodwin sands, sandy foundation; slippery ground; breakers, shoals, shallows, bank, shelf, flat, lee shore, ironbound coast; rock ahead, breakers ahead. |
Store | Verb: store; put by, lay by, set by; stow away; set apart, lay apart; store treasure, hoard treasure, lay up, heap up, put up, garner up, save up; bank; cache; accumulate, amass, hoard, fund, garner, save. |
Storehouse, storeroom, storecloset; depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory, repertory; repertorium; promptuary, warehouse, entrepot, magazine; buttery, larder, spence; garner, granary; cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom; thesaurus; bank; (treasury); armory; arsenal; dock; gallery, museum, conservatory; menagery, menagerie. | |
Treasury | Noun: treasury, bank, exchequer, fisc, hanaper; cash register, kutcherry, bursary; strong box, strong hold, strong room; coffer; chest;(receptacle); safe; bank vault; depository; till, tiller; purse; money bag, money box; porte-monnaie. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I have instructed my assistant to be paid into your Swiss bank account the sum of ten million dollars each (The Spy Who Loved Me; writing credit: Christopher Wood) I'm just going to go find a bank (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) I needed him to treat me decently and get a job, and he needed to empty my bank account (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and Billy Crystal) Love knows nothing of rank or river bank. (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard) Do you remember the man who walked into the Bank of Constantinople, and walked out with the Bank of Constantinople (Trouble in Paradise; writing credit: Aladar Laszlo; Grover Jones) | |
Lyrics | If the bank machine's crash (A Country Boy Can Survive (Y2K Verison); performing artist: Chad Brock) Even though he could have smashed through any bank (Superman's Song; performing artist: Crash Test Dummies) Keep a big bank roll and a bag of weed (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat) Money in the bank membership Visa sweaters (Put Ya Hands Up; performing artist: KISS) She likes access to your bank account (Tricky, tricky; performing artist: Lou Bega) | |
Clever | A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don't need it. (references; author: Bob Hope) Bank Drive-In Window Blocked by Board (references; author: unknown) Alimony is having an ex-husband you can bank on. (references; author: unknown) The bank of friendship cannot exist for long without deposits. (references; author: unknown) Sleeping on the job: They told me at the blood bank that this might happen. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bank Shot (1974) Das Geld liegt auf der Bank (1971) The Great Bank Robbery (1969) Die Lümmel von der ersten Bank (1968) Show Me a Strong Town and I'll Show You a Strong Bank (1966) | |
Song Titles | Walk Away Renee (performing artist: The Left Bank) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | "Velocity Field for a Stream" by Tom Tredon. Use DPGraph's Scrollbar to vary A (one river bank), B (the other river bank), or C (the speed of the stream). Click on Edit inside DPGraph for more info. |  | Bank of recording instruments at Honolulu geophysical observatory Recording tidal levels at remote sites throughout Pacific Basin Used for tsunami warning system. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Life imitating art in the Indian Ocean - celestial navigation Very similar to Winslow Homer print of navigators on Georges Bank Navigating on the PIONEER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Newburyport as seen from the northern bank of the Merrimac River. The bridge to the right is a chain suspension bridge. In: Historical Collections ... of Every Town in Massachusetts. 1841. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | A Northern Water Snake basking along the river bank in early fall. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Georges Bank starting to kick up a little bit. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Icebergs grounded on Pennel Bank. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Mate filleting a bluefin tuna after a day trip to Stellwagen Bank. Aboard the charter vessel MARIDEE II out of Point Judith, RI. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Mates working hard fileting Atlantic Cod after an offshore bottom fishing trip to Georges Bank. Aboard the headboat YANKEE CAPTAIN out of Gloucester. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Dixon Bay; the open bay. This image shows oiled vegetation and a fog bank in the distance. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
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| "Boat on the river bank" by Nenad Pantic Commentary: "A boat on the bank of river Kupa, Croatia." | "Public Bank HQ, Kuala Lumpur M" by Kasmadi Muhammad Commentary: "The Headquarters for Public Bank Berhad, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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 | Ante; plastic; clink; pile; piling; accumulation; aggregate; aggregation; amassment; assemblage; bank; barrel; buildup; chunk; collection; conglomeration; gob; great deal; hill; hoard; hunk; jumble; lump; mass; mound; oodles; pack; peck; pyramid; quantity. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Anne Sophie Swetchine | Youth should be a savings bank. |
Bill Hicks | Here is my final point, oh thank you God. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography, whatever that is. What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, or take into my body as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet? And for those of you out there who're having a little moral dilemma in your head about how to answer that question, I'll answer it for you - none of your fucking business. Take that to the bank, cash it, and go fucking on a vacation out of my life. |
Earl Wilson | Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back. |
Henry Wheeler Shaw | Economy is a savings bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return. |
Lord Byron | O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapor. |
Ramsey Macdonald | When the late J.P. Morgan was asked what he considered the best bank collateral, he replied, "Character." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | This transfer will take place without prejudice to the repayment of debts which German nationals may have contracted towards the State Bank of Morocco. (reference) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1912) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | They went that day to the Bank of England |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | That morning, he had left this seventh tree, and sat down on the bank of the brook of the Gobelins |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | A keen October wind was blowing round the bank. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The bank owned the land then, but we stayed and we got a little bit of what we raised |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | In this desolate condition I advanced forward, and soon got upon ground, where I sat down on a bank to rest myself, and consider what I had best do. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | If you would know the history of these homesteads, inquire at the bank where they are mortgaged |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Patients and their families also can help epilepsy research by donating their brain to a brain bank after death. (references) | |
Ongoing collaborative efforts, including component therapy workshops involving clinicians and blood bank directors, can do much to alter existing practices. (references) | ||
The possibility that tissue specimens can be utilized to identify subsets of the SIDS group and that a national SIDS tissue bank would be worthwhile should be evaluated. (references) | ||
Business | $10,000 must be filed by the bank. (references) | |
Bank in the UAE which offers full banking services. (references) | ||
Debt is almost entirely made up of bank borrowings. (references) | ||
Children | Bolivia | The Ministry of Education and the World Bank estimated in 1997 that 26 percent of children graduated from high school. (references) |
Ecuador | Several private organizations are very active in programs to assist street children, and UNICEF also runs a program in conjunction with the Central Bank. (references) | |
Brazil | Nationwide, the Inter-American Development Bank estimates that some 30 million children live below the poverty line and increasingly come from households headed by women. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Israel and the occupied territories | Israeli officials sometimes prohibit Palestinian residents of Jerusalem from entering the West Bank. (references) |
Ukraine | Unregistered groups are prohibited from opening bank accounts, acquiring property, or entering into contracts. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | On request, the Jordanian Government also issues travel documents to Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. (references) | |
Economic History | Zambia | Zambia's largest commercial bank. (references) |
Djibouti | Opening a local bank account is compulsory. (references) | |
Guyana | Until 1994, Guyana had only one private bank. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | They destroyed the police station, the city hall, the bank, and 10 houses. (references) |
Colombia | Guerrillas used wiretaps and accessed bank accounts of citizens at roadblocks to select kidnap victims. (references) | |
Bangladesh | A bank officer from Chittagong who spent 15 years in prison awaiting trial on corruption charges was finally released. (references) | |
Indigenous People | El Salvador | Few possessed titles to land, and bank loans and other forms of credit were extremely limited. (references) |
Jordan | Many persons of East Bank origin complain that the dynamic private sector largely is in the hands of the Palestinian majority. (references) | |
Political Economy | CZECH REPUBLIC | The bank follows OECD consensus on export credits. (references) |
Political Rights | Kazakhstan | Nearly half the population are non-Kazakhs according to the national census completed in 1999. Non-Kazakhs hold 1 of 3 positions as vice premier and head 2 of 14 government ministries and the national bank. (references) |
Trade | Chad | Chad has no investment bank. (references) |
Nigeria | Zenith International Bank Limited. (references) | |
Travel | Lebanon | Bank ATM machines are widespread. (references) |
Morocco | Bank notes are denominated in 200, 100, 50, 20 and 10 dirhams. (references) | |
West Bank | Violent clashes and confrontations continue to take place throughout the West Bank and Gaza. (references) | |
Women | Senegal | Moreover traditional practices make it difficult for women to obtain bank credit. (references) |
Swaziland | A woman generally requires her husband's permission to borrow money, open a bank account, obtain a passport, leave the country, gain access to land, and, in some cases, take a job. (references) | |
China | A 1998 Asian Development Bank report estimated that 25 percent of all women are semi-literate or illiterate, compared with 10 percent of men; illiteracy in rural areas generally is higher. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Ghana | A 1997 World Bank study indicated that children represented 12.6 percent of the country's total work force. (references) |
United Arab Emirates | However, companies in certain sectors, even if fully owned and managed by citizens, must deposit bank guarantees. (references) | |
Georgia | Observers also claimed that employers fail to transfer compulsory union dues, deducted from wages, to union bank accounts. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RESPECTABILITY, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dominick Dunne | In Monaco, in a penthouse in Monte Carlo over the bank that Mr. Safra had owned and had just sold just before his death. And it's a fascinating case. The American nurse has now been in the Monaco prison for about two and a half years. |
Robert Novak | Mr. Speaker, this week we've seen further violence in the Middle East, Palestinian terrorists, suicide bombers, as well as the Israeli tanks moving in further and occupying the West Bank. |
Rush Limbaugh | Defending the loans to Gephardt's campaign, McAuliffe said that another Washington bank had told the Federal City Bank that it would advance the money for the loan. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Provision is likewise requisite for the reimbursement of the loan which has been made of the Bank of the United States, pursuant to the eleventh section of the act by which it is incorporated. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | The Bank of the United States has been organized under auspices the most favorable, and can not fail to be an important auxiliary to those measures. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | But the bank has never asked for an appropriation. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | So I believe an urban development bank should be created by the Congress. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | New institutions have been established such as the Synthetic Fuels Corporation and Solar Bank. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Then I learned how they ran the House bank, and I realized that was exactly what they had been doing! |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Further, for the untold number of hard-working, responsible American workers and businessmen and women who've been forced to go without needed bank loans, the banking credit crunch must end. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We've also taken the first steps to protect the privacy of bank and credit card records and other financial statements. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Bank" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 79.20% of the time. "Bank" is used about 17,887 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 79.2% | 14,167 | 649 |
| Noun (proper) | 20.7% | 3,702 | 2,624 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.08% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.02% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17,887 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bank" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bank | Last name | 1,000 | 8,006 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "bank". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Hupham | N/A | Biblical | Their bank |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Australia | Adelaide Bank Limited | Austria | Bank Austria Holding A.G. |
| Canada | Bank of Montreal | China | Bank of China |
| Denmark | A/S Mons Bank | Egypt | Commercial International Bank (Egypt) |
| Germany | Baden-Wurttembergische Bank A.G. | Greece | Alpha Bank S.A. |
| Hong Kong | CITIC Ka Wah Bank Limited | Hungary | Inter-Europa Bank Rt |
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "bank": African Development Bank ♦ agent bank ♦ ailing bank ♦ alum Bank ♦ angle of bank ♦ Asian Bank ♦ asian development bank ♦ balance at the bank ♦ bank a ball ♦ bank acceptance ♦ bank account ♦ bank accountant ♦ bank advisory committee ♦ bank angle ♦ bank balance ♦ Bank beaver ♦ bank bill ♦ bank book ♦ bank branch ♦ bank building ♦ bank card ♦ bank cashier ♦ bank charges ♦ bank charter ♦ bank check ♦ bank cheque ♦ bank clerk ♦ bank closing ♦ bank cod ♦ bank code number ♦ bank commissioner ♦ bank connection ♦ bank corporation ♦ bank credit ♦ Bank Credit Analyst ♦ bank deposit ♦ bank discount ♦ bank draft ♦ bank employee ♦ bank examination ♦ bank examiner ♦ bank executive ♦ bank failure ♦ Bank for International Settlements ♦ bank giro ♦ bank giro service ♦ bank gravel ♦ bank ground ♦ bank guarantee ♦ bank guarantee for a bill ♦ bank guard ♦ bank holding company ♦ bank holiday ♦ bank identification number ♦ Bank Indonesia ♦ bank interest ♦ bank line ♦ bank loan ♦ bank management ♦ bank manager ♦ Bank martin ♦ bank messenger ♦ bank money ♦ bank motion ♦ bank note ♦ bank notes ♦ bank of a river ♦ Bank of Abyssinia ♦ bank of clouds ♦ bank of commerce ♦ Bank of deposit ♦ bank of discount ♦ bank of earth ♦ bank of Elegance ♦ bank of England ♦ bank of filters ♦ bank of flowers ♦ bank of issue ♦ bank of Japan ♦ bank of keys ♦ bank of lights ♦ bank of rubber ♦ bank of solar cells ♦ bank of the river ♦ bank office ♦ bank official ♦ bank on ♦ bank on smth. ♦ bank paper ♦ bank raid ♦ bank rate ♦ bank reef ♦ bank reserves ♦ bank return ♦ bank revetment ♦ bank robber ♦ bank robbery ♦ bank run ♦ bank select ♦ bank shore ♦ bank shot. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bank": bank-account, bank-affiliated, bank-and-pitch indicator, bank-approved, bank-backed, bank-balances, Bank-based, bank-book, bank-breakingly, bank-but, Bank-california, Bank-chequer, bank-clerk, bank-clerkcum-greek-galley-slave, bank-clerks, bank-commissioned, bank-controlled, bank-credit, bank-customer, bank-depositor relation, bank-financed, bank-fraud, bank-funded, Bank-gaza, bank-head, bank-induced, bank-industry, bank-led, bank-lending, bank-loan, bank-manager, Bank-mikklesen, bank-monitored, Bank-note detector, bank-notes, Bank-of-england, bank-owned, bank-reserve, bank-roll, Bank-search, bank-share, bank-side, Bank-sided, bank-sponsored, bank-stick, bank-sticks, bank-strewn, bank-supported, bank-watchers, bank-wide. | |
Ending with "bank": big-bank, central-bank, commercial-bank, inter-bank, memory-bank, non-bank, piggy-bank, river-bank, slag-bank. | |
Containing "bank": To double-bank an oar. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bank of america | 84,978 | bank of montreal | 4,038 |
bank one | 18,766 | compass bank | 4,000 |
bank | 14,650 | outer bank | 3,985 |
us bank | 14,434 | hrdc job bank | 3,676 |
royal bank | 10,599 | washington mutual bank | 3,633 |
briana bank | 10,038 | sovereign bank | 3,460 |
job bank | 7,218 | tcf bank | 3,368 |
scotia bank | 6,540 | bank rate | 3,028 |
well fargo bank | 6,453 | chase bank | 3,012 |
america job bank | 6,135 | draft bank | 3,003 |
fleet bank | 5,989 | bank of america.com | 2,827 |
commerce bank | 5,695 | credit card bank | 2,816 |
citizen bank | 5,343 | suntrust bank | 2,671 |
national city bank | 4,906 | td bank | 2,487 |
fifth third bank | 4,449 | charter one bank | 2,481 |
pnc bank | 4,445 | royal bank of canada | 2,373 |
tyra bank | 4,295 | region bank | 2,298 |
household bank | 4,262 | wachovia bank | 2,198 |
key bank | 4,239 | people bank | 2,165 |
brianna bank | 4,191 | first union bank | 2,146 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bank"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | bank (bench), oewer (border, edge, shore). (various references) | |
Albanian | bankë (bench, pew, treasure house). (various references) | |
Arabic | تعامل مع الصرف, ركم (accumulate), إتكل على بنك الإصدار, جزء فرعي, صف (alignment, classroom, course, cue, delineate, grade, lane, line, lineup, queue, range, rank, row, schoolroom, tier), صف مفاتيح, ركام (cumulus, drift, heap, jumble, mess, moraine, morass, mound, pile, stuff), تراكم (accumulate, accumulation, bulk, collect, collection, cumulation, drift, gathering, inure, pack, pile, piling up, press), كومة (heap, mound, pack, pilau, pile, shock, stack), تميل الطائرة جانبيا, ودع فى مصرف (deposit), مدير نادي القمار, مال الطائرة جانبيا, مجموعة مصاعد, كوم (accumulate, amass, heap, heap up, hill up, jam, lumber, pile, pile up, rake, scrape, stack, stick, tamp, tumble), ضفة (edge, shore, strand). (various references) | |
Asturian | bancu. (various references) | |
Aymara | jahuirlaca (river bank). (various references) | |
Basque | banketxea, banketxe. (various references) | |
Bavarian | bank. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | issoitahtaan (river bank). (various references) | |
Breton | bank, ti-bank. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | укрепявам (embank, entrench, fortify, secure, strengthen, truss), резерва (backlog, limitation, qualification, qualifier, reservation, reserve, stockpile, supply), хапвам си, крайбрежие (beach, coast, edge, littoral, seaboard, seacoast, seaside, waterside), влагам пари в банка, вираж, откос (bevel, cant, case shot, slope, swath, swathe, windrow), насип (dike, embankment, escarp, hilling, jetty, levee, mound), начало на минна галерия, натрупвам (accumulate, agglomerate, amass, congest, cumulate, deck, garner, heap, huddle, lumber, pile, pyramid, shovel up, stack, store), банка (kitty), пейка за гребци, пласт миди. (various references) | |
Catalan | banc. (various references) | |
Cebuano | bangko. (various references) | |
Chamorro | banko. (various references) | |
Chinese | 陼 (islet), 銀行 , 银行 (Banc, Banks), 阤 (hillside), 皋 (marsh), 睾 (marsh, testicles), 畔 (field-path), 垠 , 澨 (name of a river, shore), 濱 (beach, coast, shore), 渚 (islet), 岸 (beach, coast, shore). (various references) | |
Cornish | arghantty. (various references) | |
Croatian | banke, banci. (various references) | |
Czech | banka. (various references) | |
Danish | bank (all-purpose bank, all-purpose commercial bank, banking institution, combined commercial and investment bank, full-service bank, library, multibank, multi-purpose bank, non-specialized bank, universal bank, universal banking), bred (border, broad, edge, shore). (various references) | |
Dutch | bank (bench, easel, sandbank, tressle, workbench), wal (border, edge, platform, quay, rampart, ring, shore, wharf). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | cullqui huasi. (various references) | |
Esperanto | banko. (various references) | |
Estonian | pank. (various references) | |
Faeroese | banki, strond (beach, border, edge, shore). (various references) | |
Farsi | کپه کردن (Wad), کنار (Apart, Away, Besides, Brim, Brink, By, Limit, Lip, List, Margin, Next, Rand, Recess, Shunt, Verge), لب (Brink, Cheek, Lip, Nucleus, Puss), ساحل (Beach, Coast, Littoral, Shore), ضرابخانه (Mint), رویهم انباشتن (Accumulate, Pyramid), دربانک گذاشتن , بانکداری کردن , بانک . (various references) | |
Finnish | särkkä (dune, ridge of sand), ranta (beach, border, edge, shore, strand), penger (dike, embankment, terrace). (various references) | |
Flemish | bank. (various references) | |
French | banque (banking institution, United Overseas Bank SA), rive (river bank), bord (river bank), talus (bank slope, banks), berge (bank slope, stream bank), banc (sand bank). (various references) | |
French Canadian | banque. (various references) | |
Frisian | bank. (various references) | |
Galician | banco. (various references) | |
German | Ufer (border, edge, shore, shoreline, waterfront, waterside, watersides), bank (bed, bench, crouch position, dock, easel, form, kitty, layer, pew, seat, settle, squab, tressle, workbench), bord (border, edge, ledge, shelf, shore), Böschung (embankment), wall (bulwark, embankment, mound, parapet, rampart), strand (beach, border, edge, foreshore, seashore, seaside, shore, strand, waterfront), reihe (array, battery, chain, file, line, line-up, number, order, procession, progression, range, rank, row, run, series, set, string, suite, tier, turn), Gestade (border, coast, edge, shore). (various references) | |
Greek | όχθη (margin, riverside, shore), ανάχωμα (dike, dyke, embankment, levee, mound), τράπεζα (table). (various references) | |
Guarani | rembe'ý. (various references) | |
Haitian Creole | bank. (various references) | |
Hawaiian | bankë. (various references) | |
Hebrew | להפקיד בבנק, לסכור (close, dam, shut), שפוע (bevel, cant, gradient, incline, obliqueness, rake, rise, slant, slope, splay, tilt, tip), בנק. (various references) | |
Hungarian | bank, part (beach, coast, land, margin, rive, shore, strand), folyópart (bank of the river, riverbank, riverside). (various references) | |
Icelandic | banki. (various references) | |
Indonesian | bank, tumpukan (agglomeration, heap, mound, stack), tepian sungai, tepian, menabung (save). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | kiinaujakkuvik. (various references) | |
Irish | banc. (various references) | |
Italian | banca (slip), sponda (edge, riverside, shore, side), riva (riverside, shore, side), banco (bar, bench, counter, desk, dock, pew, stall, stand, work bench, writing, writing desk, writing-desk). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 岸 (coast, shore), 堤防 (weir). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎんこう (ore, silver mine), バンク , きしべ, きし (banner, coast, emblem, ensign, exposing a corpse in the city, flag, knight, last child, saving from the brink of death, shogi player, shore, sixth of the sexagenary cycle, term of respect in addressing ladies or anothers older sister, your columns, your honored paper, your journal, your magazine, your paper), どて (embankment), つつみ (bale, bundle, dike, embankment, package, parcel), ていぼう (weir), ちくてい (embankment, landscape gardening), ちょきんばこ (savings box). (various references) | |
Kongo | fulu kia lundila mbongo. (various references) | |
Korean | 은행 (Banks). (various references) | |
Luxembourgish | bank. (various references) | |
Macedonian | banka. (various references) | |
Malay | bank, bangku (bench). (various references) | |
Manx | thie argid, leaystey (balancing, boggle, brandish, dangle, fluctuate, fluctuating, heel, hesitate, hesitating, hesitation, loll, lolling, oscillate, oscillation, reel, reeling, rock, rocking, roll, see-saw, sway, swaying, swerve, swing, swing back, swinging, vacillate, vacillating, vacillation, waddle; wavering, waddling; fluctuation, wave, wave of hand, waver, waver of fixture), dellal rish y vanc, cleayney (attract, circumvent, decoy, deviate, dispose, distort, distortion, diversion, divert, draw off, incline, induce, influence, inveigle, list, penchant, persuasion, perversion, predilection, predispose, recede, seduce, stoop, tend, tend as garden, trend, vamp, veer), claddagh (beach, land by a river, littoral, polder, river bank), carnane y yannoo, brooghane, boghlane (broken down hedge), banc. (various references) | |
Maori | peeke (bag). (various references) | |
Norwegian | bank. (various references) | |
Occitan | broa (shore), banca. (various references) | |
Papiamen | banko, ref (sandbank), klef (sandbank), kantu (border, edge, shore), kanto (border, edge, shore). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ankbay.(various references) | |
Polish | brzeg (border, edge, shore). (various references) | |
Portuguese | banco (bed, bench, easel, machine, sandbank, school of fish, seat, shoal, stool, tressle, workbench), margem (balk, bottom, confines, edge, fringe, hem, inset, marge, margin, rand, rim, shore, side, verge, water-front, waterside). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | banco. (various references) | |
Provencal | banca. (various references) | |
Romanian | bancã (bench, box, desk, dock, form, kitty, seat). (various references) | |
Romansch | banc. (various references) | |
Romany | bànka. (various references) | |
Ruanda | banque. (various references) | |
Russian | банк (banc, banking-house, jackpot, kitty). (various references) | |
Samoan | faletupe. (various references) | |
Scottish | bruach (a bank, brink, small extent of). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | banka, obala reke (riverside), nasuti (fill, pour), nasip (bulwark, causeway, causey, dam, dike, embankment, jetty, levee, mound), nagnuti (cant, heel, incline, lean, slant, slope, tilt, tip), nagib (bevel, bias, camber, cant, descent, escarp, grade, gradient, heel, inclination, incline, lean, list, offset, pitch, slant, slope, tilt, tip, weathering). (various references) | |
Sicilian | banca. (various references) | |
Slovene | banko, banki, banke, banène. (various references) | |
Somali | bangiga (the bank). (various references) | |
Spanish | banco (banker, bed, bench, divan, form, school, seat, settle, shelf, shoal), orilla (border, brink, edge, hem, riverside, shore, shoreline, side), ribera (riverside, shore, strand), terraplén (earthwork, embankment, mound, rampart, terrace, terreplein), inclinación lateral (banking), batería (battery, battery deck, drummer, drums, pile, shore battery, skins), bajo (base, bass, bass voice, basso, below, beneath, bottom, deep, depth, despicable, down, humble, low, low down, low lying, lower, menial, short, small, subdued, under, underneath, would be). (various references) | |
Sranan | watrasey (border, edge, shore), syoro (border, edge, platform, quay, shore, wharf). (various references) | |
Swahili | benki (bank's). (various references) | |
Swedish | bank (banking house, bar, cloudbank, dyke, embankment, sandbank), strand (beach, border, edge, seafront, seaside, shore, strand, waterside). (various references) | |
Tagalog | bangko, bángko. (various references) | |
Thai | ช่วยตัวเอง (frig, J.Arthur Rank, Jodrell Bank), ธนาคารเพื่อธุรกิจขนาดใหญ่ (merchant bank). (various references) | |
Turkish | banka (banking, banking house). (various references) | |
Turkmen | bank, seссer (rampart, wall). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вибій (chuck-hole, delve, pothole), депозит (deposit), банк (banking house), берег (coast, shore, strand, waterside), бути банкіром, лава (lava), заповнювати (lard, occupy, pack, stuff, write in), загачувати (barrage, bay, impound, jam, pond, stank), згрібати в купу (rake together), мілина (bar, beach, bench, shallow), набір (assortment, gang, intake, selection, suit), навалювати, накренятися, дамба (barrage, bund, causeway, dam, dike, dyke, embankment, jetty, mole, pen, pier, sea-bank), оточувати (beleaguer, beset, besiege, box, circle, compass, cordon, embosom, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, enlace, environ, gird, girdle, girth, hang about, hem about, hem in, inclose, mob, palisade, ring, skirt, surround, zone), сісти на мілину (ground, run aground, strand), вал (axle, billow, bulwark, cam, water-wave, wave), віраж, групувати (assort, bracket, group), класти гроші в банк, комплект (assembly, battery, bevy, complement, kit, outfit, set, set out, shook, suite), крен (banking, careen, heeling, lurch), фонд (chest, fond, fund, stock), риф (ledge, reef), робити насип, робити віраж, розраховувати (bargain on, calculate, depend, expect), устя шахти, суд (court, judicature, law, tribunal), насип (banking, banquette, bund, cam, embankment, mound). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bờ miệng hầm, lạch (channel, run), kênh (canal), hồ (mere, swimming-hole), gờ (edge, edging, ledge), đê (dike, dyke, embankment, water-wall). (various references) | |
Welsh | banc (hillock, mound). (various references) | |
Zulu | ilibhange, ibhange. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | pi. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | crepidine, crepidinem, crepidinis, crepido, marginem, ribai, ripa, ripae, ripam, ripas, ripis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 19, Verse 23 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai diati ouk edwkaV to argurion mou epi thn trapezan kai egw elqwn sun tokw an epraxa auto |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et quare non dedisti pecuniam meam ad mensam et ego veniens cum usuris utique exegissem illud |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | And hwi ne sealdest þu min feoh to hyre. and þonne ic come ic hit witodlice mid gestreone onfenge; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whi hast thou not youun my money to the boord, and I comynge schulde haue receyued it sothli with vsuris? |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Wherfore then gavest not thou my money into the banke that at my cominge I might have required myne awne with vauntage? |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury? |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Why then gavest thou not my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required my own with interest? |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Why then did you not put my money in a bank, so that when I came I would get it back with interest? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 19, Verse 23 |
| Cebuano | nan, nganong wala man lamang nimo idiposito ang akong kuwarta sa bangko, aron nga sa akong paghiuli makuha ko unta kini nga may tubo? |
| Chinese | 為 甚 麼 不 把 我 的 銀 子 交 給 銀 行 、 等 我 來 的 時 候 、 連 本 帶 利 都 可 以 要 回 來 呢 。 |
| Croatian | Zašto onda nisi uložio moj novac u novèarnicu? Ja bih ga po povratku podigao s dobitkom.' |
| Danish | hvorfor gav du da ikke mine Penge til Vekselbordet, så jeg ved min Hjemkomst kunde have krævet dem med Rente? |
| Dutch | Waarom hebt gij dan mijn geld niet in de bank gegeven, en ik, komende, had hetzelve met woeker mogen eisen? |
| Finnish | miksi et siis antanut rahojani rahanvaihtajan pöytään, että minä tultuani olisin saanut periä ne korkoineen?` |
| French | pourquoi donc n`as-tu pas mis mon argent dans une banque, afin qu`à mon retour je le retirasse avec un intérêt? |
| German | Warum hast du denn mein Geld nicht in die Wechselbank gegeben? Und wenn ich gekommen wäre, hätte ich's mit Zinsen erfordert. |
| Haitian Creole | poukisa ou pa t' mete lajan m' labank; lè m' ta tounen, mwen ta wete l' ak yon enterè. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kalau begitu mengapa kau tidak memasukkan uang itu ke bank supaya apabila saya kembali saya dapat menerima uang itu dengan bunganya?' |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Apakah sebabnya tiada engkau taruhkan uang perakku itu di tempat orang menjalankan uang? Supaya apabila aku kembali dapat kuambil balik beserta dengan bunganya? |
| Italian | perché allora non hai consegnato il mio denaro a una banca? Al mio ritorno l'avrei riscosso con gli interessi. |
| Maori | He aha koe te hoatu ai i taku moni ki te peeke, penei kua riro mai taua mea i ahau, me ona hua ano, i toku taenga mai? |
| Norwegian | hvorfor satte du da ikke mine penger ut hos pengevekslerne? Så hadde jeg, når jeg kom, fått dem tilbake med renter. |
| Portuguese | por que, pois, não puseste o meu dinheiro no banco? então vindo eu, o teria retirado com os juros. |
| Rumanian | atunci de ce nu mi-ai pus banii la zarafi, pentruca, la kntoarcerea mea, sq -i fi luat knapoi cu dobkndq?`` |
| Russian | ДМС ЮЕЗП ЦЕ ФЩ ОЕ ПФДБМ УЕТЕВТБ НПЕЗП Ч ПВПТПФ, ЮФПВЩ С, РТЙДС, РПМХЮЙМ ЕЗП У РТЙВЩМША? |
| Shuar | nuinkia ¿urukamtia kuit-ikiutainiam ikiuschamam? Nuinkia wi atak Táakun patasan achikiaajna" timiai. |
| Spanish | ¿Por qué, pues, no pusiste mi dinero en el banco, para que al venir yo lo cobrara junto con los intereses?' |
| Swahili | Kwa nini basi, hukuiweka fedha yangu benki, nami ningeichukua pamoja na faida baada ya kurudi kwangu?` |
| Swedish | Varför satte du då icke in mina penningar i en bank? Då hade jag, när jag kom hem, fått uppbära dem med ränta.' |
| Uma | napa pai' doi-ku uma nupopesua' hi bank, bona ane rata-apa, ku'ala' hante ana' -na!' |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bank": bankabilities, bankability, bankable, bankbook, bankbooks, bankcard, bankcards, banked, banker, bankerly, bankers, banking, bankings, banknote, banknotes, bankroll, bankrolled, bankroller, bankrollers, bankrolling, bankrolls, bankrupt, bankruptcies, bankruptcy, bankrupted, bankrupting, bankrupts, banks, banksia, banksias, bankside, banksides. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bank": claybank, cutbank, databank, embank, interbank, mountebank, multibank, nonbank, riverbank, sandbank, snowbank, stopbank, superbank. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bank": claybanks, cutbanks, databanks, embanked, embanking, embankment, embankments, embanks, mountebanked, mountebankeries, mountebankery, mountebanking, mountebanks, nonbanking, nonbanks, riverbanks, sandbanks, snowbanks, stopbanks, superbanks. (additional references) | |
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"Bank" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abn, ank, Baak, baan, bahn, baik, bak, bana, banci, bani, banik, banka, Bankim, bankk, banko, banky, bann, bano, banq, Banska, bant, Banu, bany, bcn, Behnke, benk, Binka, Bnaf, bnk, boink, bonko, bonky, brank, Branka, bunki, Bunuk, bvan, gank, nank, tbank, vank. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bank" (pronounced ba"ngk) |
| 4 | b a" ng k | interbank, nonbank. |
| 3 | -a" ng k | antitank, blank, brank, clank, crank, dank, drank, flank, franc, Frank, Hank, lank, plank, prank, rank, sank, shank, shrank, spank, stank, swank, tank, thank, yank. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-k-n" | |
-1 letter: ban, kab, nab. | |
-2 letters: ab, an, ba, ka, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-k-n" | |
+1 letter: banks, blank, brank. | |
+2 letters: baking, banked, banker, blanks, branks, embank, kanban. | |
+3 letters: backing, bakings, balking, bangkok, bankers, banking, banksia, bannock, barking, basking, beatnik, betaken, bethank, blacken, blanked, blanker, blanket, blankly, bookman, bracken, braking, bunraku, cutbank, embanks, finback, ikebana, kanbans, lambkin, nonbank, runback, sunback, tanbark, unbaked, unbrake. | |
+4 letters: backbend, backbone, backhand, backings, backland, backspin, balkline, bangkoks, bankable, bankbook, bankcard, bankerly, bankings, banknote, bankroll, bankrupt, banksias, bankside, bannocks, barnlike, baudekin, baulking, beanlike, bearskin, beatniks, bedarken, beraking, betaking, bethanks, blackens, blackfin, blacking, blankest, blankets, blanking, blinkard, brackens, brakeman, brakemen, breaking, buckbean, bunkmate, bunrakus, claybank, cutbanks, databank, embanked, finbacks, handbook, ikebanas, ironbark, knowable, lambkins, lambskin, linkable, neckband, ninebark, nonbanks, nonblack, ringbark, runbacks, sandbank, sinkable, snakebit, snapback, snowbank, stopbank, sunbaked, tanbarks, unbacked, unbraked, unbrakes, wingback. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Historic 12. Quotations: Fiction | 13. Quotations: Non-fiction 14. Quotations: Spoken 15. Quotations: Speeches 16. Usage Frequency | 17. Names: Frequency 18. Names: Derived from 19. Names: Company Usage 20. Expressions | 21. Expressions: Internet 22. Translations: Modern 23. Translations: Ancient 24. Bible Trace | 25. Abbreviations 26. Acronyms 27. Derivations 28. Rhymes | 29. Anagrams 30. Bibliography |
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