noun
- Engaging in the business of keeping money for savings and checking accounts or for exchange or for issuing loans and credit etc..
- Transacting business with a bank; depositing or withdrawing funds or requesting a loan etc..
verb
- Tip laterally.
- usage: "the pilot had to bank the aircraft"
- synonyms: bank
- Enclose with a bank.
- usage: "bank roads"
- synonyms: bank
- Do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank.
- usage: "Where do you bank in this town"
- synonyms: bank
- Act as the banker in a game or in gambling.
- synonyms: bank
- Be in the banking business.
- synonyms: bank
- Put into a bank account.
- usage: "She deposits her paycheck every month"
- Cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning.
- usage: "bank a fire"
- synonyms: bank
- Have confidence or faith in.
- usage: "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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