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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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

Beyond the ditch are banks generally laid with turf.

Wine of medium quality is grown on the banks of the Marne and the Aisne.

A tribe living on the banks of the Nile between Wadi Halfa and Assuan are called Barabra.

I see far inland the banks which the stream anciently washed, before science began to record its freshets.

Much capital was locked up in the failed banks, and was therefore not available for distribution amongst wageearners.

But strategic considerations were cancelled by the Persian barons' code of chivalry, and Alexander found them waiting for him on the banks of the Granicus.

The most considerable towns on its banks (south of Botzen) are Trent and Rovereto, in Tirol, and Verona and Legnago, in Italy.

There was distrust in the minds of the depositors, especially those whose holdings were small, and most of the banks were, at a very early period, subjected to the strain of repaying a large proportion of their deposits as they fell due.

They reached a river that had overflowed its banks and which they had to cross by ferry.

Its bed is now broad, studded with islands and enclosed by high banks.

From a little above the confluence of the Great Zab downward, the banks of the river are absolutely uninhabited, and the river flows through a desert until Tekrit is reached.

The building societies and financial institutions in receipt of deposits, or so many of them as were on an unsound footing, failed at an early period of the depression, so also did the weaker banks.

Vermont's rivers are generally swift, and in many places they are made very picturesque by their clear and sparkling waters, rapids, falls, gorges and wooded banks.

The excess expenditure caused the Post Office during two or three years to make temporary application of Savings Banks' balances to telegraph expenditure, an expedient which was disapproved of by both the Treasury and the House of Commons.

Within Holland the banks are so low.

The twin moons of the outer banks of Hell were bright.

The forced paper currency, instituted in 1866, was abolished in 1881, in which year were dissolved the Union of Banks of Issue created in 1874 to furnish to the state treasury a milliard of lire in notes, guaranteed collectively by the banks.

Until 1893 the juridical status of the Banks of Issue was regulated by the laws of the 3oth of April 1874 on paper currency and of the 7th of April 1881 on the abolition of forced currency.

The number of ordinary banks, which diminished between 1889 and 1894, increased in the following years, and was 158 In 1898.

Certain banks make a special business of lending money to owners iif land or buildings (credito fo,zdiario).

The banks may buy up mortgages and advance money on current account on the security of land or buildings.

The development of the large cities has induced these banks to turn their attention rather to building enterprise than to mortgages on rural property.

Gaston de Foix bought a doubtful victory dearly with his death; and the allies, though beaten on the banks of the Ronco, immediately afterwards expelled the French from Lombardy.

Early in 1893 a scandal arose in connection with the management of state banks, and particularly of the Banca Romana, whose managing director, Tanlongo, had issued 2,500,000 of duplicate bank-notes.

For a time Giolitti successfully opposed inquiry into the conditions of the state banks, but on the 21st of March was compelled to sanction an official investigation by a parliamentary commission composed of seven members.

It established that all Italian cabinets since 1880 had grossly neglected the state banks; that the two preceding cabinets had been aware of the irregularities committed by Tanlongo; that Tanlongo had heavily subsidized the press, paying as much as 20,000 for that purpose in 1888 alone; that a number of deputies, including several ex-ministers, had received from him loans of a considerable amount, which they had apparently made no effort to refund; that Giolitti had deceived the Chamber with regard to the state banks, and was open tosuspicion of having,after the arrest of Tanlongo, abstracted a number of documents from the latters papers before placing the remainder in the hands of the judicial authorities.

The state banks, already hampered by maladministration, were encumbered by huge quantities of real estate which had been taken over as compensation for unredeemed mortgages.

The new law forbade the state banks to lend money on real estate, limited their powers of discounting bills and securities, and reduced the maximum of their paper currency.

In order to diminish the gold premium, which under Giolitti had risen to 16%, forced currency was given to the existing notes of the banks of Italy, Naples and Sicily, while special state notes were issued to meet immediate currency needs.

John undertakes to disforest all forests which have been made in his time, and also to give up such river banks as he has seized for his own use when engaged in sport.

About three-quarters of a mile away, on the banks of the river Ganges, is the Massacre Ghat.

A grassy road between banks io to 12 ft.

The xerophytic characters being present, it is not surprising that many marsh plants, like Juncus effusus and Iris pseudacorus, are able to survive in dry situations, such as banks and even garden rockeries.

The French followed closely on the track of John Cabot, and Norman and Breton fishermen frequented the banks of Newfoundland at the beginning of the 16th century.

Before the death of Bruce an African Association was formed, in 1788, for collecting information respecting the interior of that continent, with Major Rennell and Sir Joseph Banks as leading members.

During the remarkable voyage he then made to Timor, Bligh passed amongst the northern islands of the New Hebrides, which he named the Banks Group, and made several running surveys.

The slope of the river bed diminishes until the plain compels the river to move slowly, swinging in meanders proportioned to its size, and gradually, controlled by the flattening land, ceasing to transport material, but raising its banks and silting up its bed by the dropped sediment, until, split up and shoaled, its distributaries struggle across its delta to the sea.

The city has several parks, including the Franklin of 90 acres, the Goodale of 44 acres, and the Schiller of 24 acres, besides the Olentangy, a well-equipped amusement resort on the banks of the river from which it is named, the Indianola, another amusement resort, and the United States military post and recruiting station, which occupies 80 acres laid out like a park.

His father, Edward Wakefield (1774-1854), author of Ireland, Statistical and Political (1812), was a surveyor and land agent in extensive practice; his grandmother, Priscilla Wakefield (1751-1832), was a popular author for the young, and one of the introducers of savings banks.

There are many pleasant drives along the shore of the bay or the banks of rivers, and some of these lead to popular resorts, such as Riverton Park, on the Presumpscot; Cape Cottage Park, at the mouth of the harbour; and Falmouth Foreside, bordering the inner bay.

The Assyrians pursued the Elamite army to Susa, where a battle was fought on the banks of the Eulaeus, in which the Elamites were defeated, Teumman captured and slain, and Umman-igas, the son of Urtaki, made king, his younger brother Tammaritu being given the district of Khidalu.

The return of Khumba-Khaldas led to a fresh Assyrian invasion; the Elamite king fled from Madaktu to Dur-undasi; Susa and other cities were taken, and the Elamite army almost exterminated on the banks of the Itite.

It may be divided into three divisions, upper, lower and middle, each of which is distinguished by special physical features, and has played a conspicuous part in the world's history, retaining to the present day monumental evidence of the races who have lined its banks.

Until the advent of the nomads from central Asia, and the devastation of Mesopotamia and the opposite Syrian shore of the river, there were many flourishing cities along its course, the ruins of which, representing all periods, still dot its banks.

It is easy to distinguish the great primitive watercourses from the lateral ducts which they fed, the latter being almost without banks and merely traceable by the winding curves of the layers of alluvium in the bed, while the former are hedged in by high banks of mud, heaped up during centuries of dredging.

To obtain a correct idea of this region it must be borne in mind also that the course of the river and the features of the country on both banks are subject to constant fluctuation.

From Korna to Basra the banks of the river are well cultivated and the date groves almost continuous; indeed this is the greatest date-producing region of the world.

The fact also that many of the most ancient of these ruins, like Ur, Lagash (Sirpurla), Larsa, Erech, Nippur, Sippara and Babylon, were situated on the banks of the great canals would indicate that the control of the waters of the rivers by a system of canalization and irrigation was one of the first achievements of civilization.

Fauna.-Among wild animals the tiger or ounce-called in the Guarani language the ja-gud or "big dog"-and the puma are found on the frontier of Brazil and on the wooded islets and banks of the larger rivers.

Besides a number of local banks, branches of German, Spanish, French and several British banks are established in Montevideo.