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banks

/bæŋks/

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noun

An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
A branch office of such an institution.
An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque.
A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
Money; profit
In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
"blood bank; sperm bank; data bank"
A device used to store coins or currency.
"If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank."

Synonyms:banker

To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
"He banked with Barclays."
To put into a bank.
"I'm going to bank the money."
To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
"Johnny banked some coke for me."

An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).
"the banks of Newfoundland"
A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
An incline, a hill.
A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
"The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front."
The face of the coal at which miners are working.
A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
The ground at the top of a shaft.
"Ores are brought to bank."

To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
"to bank sand"
To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
To pass by the banks of.
To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.

A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
"a bank of pay phones"
A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.

A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
A bench or seat for judges in court.
The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc.
A kind of table used by printers.
A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
Slang for money

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