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 business or employment of a banker; the business carried on by a bank.
- Pertaining to or conducted by a bank: as, banking operations.
- 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.
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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The company had until recently had a decent cash buffer, but it was using private debt or “shadow banking” to borrow against invoices, effectively keeping debt off its balance-sheet disclosures, and turning a company with 26,000 employees into finance company more than the supplier of an auto parts supplier.
First Brands: why a maker of spark plugs and wiper blades has Wall Street worried Edward Helmore 2025
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In this new world of “open banking,” lenders no longer need to settle for just the data that appears on a credit report. They can now analyze all of your day-to-day transactions, your recurring payments and deposits, and the trajectory of your account balance.
There’s a new way to get a loan — but it comes at a cost Michael Waters 2025
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Open banking is a financial services model that allows third-party service providers to access consumer data from traditional banking systems through application programming interfaces (APIs). This model completely changes the way financial data is shared and accessed by increasing transparency, competition, and innovation.
What is open banking and how does it work? | Stripe Authorization Boost 2025
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"Open banking" is, bluntly, a combination of laws and technology that allows you to give third party companies digital access to your bank information (like statements and transaction history).
ELI5 what is open banking, and why is it all the rage? DemandScary1934 2025
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In our ongoing research, we’re exploring a promising concept that could potentially ease some of these burdens: time banking, a community-based mutual aid system that treats everyone’s time as equally valuable.
Time banks could ease the burden of elder care and promote connection Chao Guo 2025
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“Time banking means that for every hour you give to your community, you receive an hour credit,” explains Krista Wyatt, executive director of the DC-based nonprofit TimeBanks.Org, which helps volunteers establish local time banks all over the world.
Banking the Most Valuable Currency: Time Michaela Haas 2024
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