Definitions
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- adj. Without a bank.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Without banks or limits: as, “the bankless sea.”
Etymologies
Examples
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Currently over 90 million Americans are 'bankless' and need a new personal checking account.
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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
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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
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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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The bankless tend to be minority, low income and young.
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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.
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With new payment technology, we could soon have the bankless society.
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But given the financial bailouts, executive bonuses, and general shamelessness of some of the largest financial arms - going bankless maybe the way to go.
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Amy Scott reports on what one bankless Nebraska community is doing.
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