Bank

Where money lives

Bank has two distinct origins that have settled on the same spelling.

One bank is a financial institution where people deposit money, take out loans, and conduct other monetary transactions; by extension, any repository or reserve can be called a bank: blood bank, food bank, data bank.

To bank is to deposit money or to rely on something: Don't bank on good weather.

The other bank is a raised edge or slope, like a riverbank or a bank of clouds, or a row of similar objects: a bank of elevators.

Aircraft bank when they tilt during a turn.

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Basset

Surname or breed designation

  • BaccaratFrench luxury crystal manufacturer
  • shoeCovering for feet
  • dealingConducting business transactions

house edge · casino

Categories
Opposites
financial institution type

Bankmattress

Padded sleeping surface

loan shark · cookie jar · piggy bank · black market · barter system

river geography

Bankchannel

Passage for transmission

riverbed · midstream · current · flow · deep water

money management philosophy

Bankmattress

Padded sleeping surface

spending · squandering · dissipation · profligacy · cash hoarding

Phrases
Family

banks, banked, banking, banker, bankers, bankable, unbanked, bankroll, bankrolled

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G