Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The business of a bank.
- noun The occupation of a banker.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of raising a mound or bank, or of inclosing with a bank.
- noun The bank or mound raised; anything piled up to serve as a bank, as a raised edging of wax on a plate that is to be treated with acids for etching.
- noun A general term for fishing as practised on the banks of Newfoundland.
- noun In coal-mining, the sorting or loading of coals “at bank,” or at the mouth of the shaft.
- noun The business or employment of a banker; the business carried on by a bank.
- Pertaining to or conducted by a bank: as, banking operations.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The business of a bank or of a banker.
- noun an establishment or office in which, or a firm by whom, banking is done.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
business of managing abank - noun The
occupation of managing or working in a bank - noun aviation A
horizontal turn. - verb Present participle of
bank .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun engaging in the business of keeping money for savings and checking accounts or for exchange or for issuing loans and credit etc.
- noun transacting business with a bank; depositing or withdrawing funds or requesting a loan etc.
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Examples
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But a system of banking, sometimes called _free banking_, has more recently been adopted in some states.
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The term banking was then applied only to the issue of notes and the taking up of money on bills on demand.
Lombard Street : a description of the money market Walter Bagehot 1851
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Your banking is a more hacker desirable target than your health information.
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Christensen and his colleagues are the type of "educators" that whittle education down to a teacher, textbook, or - in the near future - software companies depositing information into the "empty" minds of students Freire's critique of what he describes as banking theory; Christensen takes the banking theory digital.
Archive 2009-07-01 Jim Horn 2009
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Christensen and his colleagues are the type of "educators" that whittle education down to a teacher, textbook, or - in the near future - software companies depositing information into the "empty" minds of students Freire's critique of what he describes as banking theory; Christensen takes the banking theory digital.
Clayton Christensen and the Innosight Institute:Fixing Public Education Kenneth Libby 2009
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He created his Grameen Bank by turning the tenets of what we know as banking upside down.
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After these banks had been long established, they began to do what we call banking business; but at first they never thought of it.
Lombard Street : a description of the money market Walter Bagehot 1851
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Euro 560 million, mainly driven by Italy (mostly non repeat of the 2010 fiscal amnesty and stronger focus on Unit-Linked products), Belgium (more conservative offer in a low profitability environment) and France (uncertainties in February and March 2011 on Life insurance tax regulation and competition from short term banking accounts with higher offered rates).
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Today let's look at credit cards, which can cost retailers more than three times as much as debit cards to process and which are increasingly falling under a host of new federal regulations as officials crack down on what they call the banking industry's most abusive practices.
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TARP's roots officially date to Friday, Oct. 3, when jittery lawmakers authorized what they called a banking bailout, worth $700 billion and loosely defined.
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