What is the meaning of banking?

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"
  • synonyms: deposit, bank
• 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"
  • synonyms: trust, swear, rely, bank