Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without banks or limits: as, “the bankless sea.”
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- adjective Without a
bank .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Currently over 90 million Americans are 'bankless' and need a new personal checking account.
MMD Newswire: Press Release News Wire MMD Newswire 2010
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Currently over 90 million Americans are 'bankless' and need a new personal checking account.
MMD Newswire: Press Release News Wire MMD Newswire 2010
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Currently over 90 million Americans are 'bankless' and need a new personal checking account.
MMD Newswire: Press Release News Wire MMD Newswire 2010
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Americans are expected to load $37 billion this year on to prepaid cards, which function like bankless debit cards and are available at drug stores and discounters.
Reporter Spends Month Living Without A Bank, Finds Sky-High Fees The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Nearly one in 10 New Yorkers are “bankless,” the New York State Department of Banking estimates, and the numbers get worse as you move further down the income ladder.
Stat of The Day: Quarter of Public Housing Residents Don't Use Banks 2008
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Nearly one in 10 New Yorkers are “bankless,” the New York State Department of Banking estimates, and the numbers get worse as you move further down the income ladder.
Stat of The Day: Quarter of Public Housing Residents Don't Use Banks 2008
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The bankless tend to be minority, low income and young.
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It would also mean going from a bankless world to a cashless one, maybe even faster than America or Europe.
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Lost, yonder, amidst bankless, boundless marsh -- soaking in slow shallowness, as it will, hither and thither, listless, among the poisonous reeds and unresisting slime -- it is free also.
On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
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With new payment technology, we could soon have the bankless society.
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