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Definition of bank

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Bank (n.) An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity..

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Assignee :: Assignee (v.) In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors..

Bank Bill :: Bank bill () In England, a note, or a bill of exchange, of a bank, payable to order, and usually at some future specified time. Such bills are negotiable, but form, in the strict sense of the term, no part of the currency..

Change :: Change (v. t.) Small money; the money by means of which the larger coins and bank bills are made available in small dealings; hence, the balance returned when payment is tendered by a coin or note exceeding the sum due..

Incorporate :: Incorporate (v. t.) To form into a legal body, or body politic; to constitute into a corporation recognized by law, with special functions, rights, duties and liabilities; as, to incorporate a bank, a railroad company, a city or town, etc..

Rest :: Rest (n.) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities..

Failure :: Failure (n.) A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business..

Bank Note :: Bank note () Formerly, a promissory note made by a banker, or banking company, payable to a specified person at a fixed date; a bank bill. See Bank bill, 2..

Stank :: Stank (n.) Water retained by an embankment; a pool water.

Check :: Check (n.) A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below..

Fret :: Fret (n.) The worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones containing them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins..

Quadrireme :: Quadrireme (n.) A galley with four banks of oars or rowers.

Osiered :: Osiered (a.) Covered or adorned with osiers; as, osiered banks..

Bankrupt :: Bankrupt (a.) Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant..

Shroff :: Shroff (n.) A banker, or changer of money..

Cave :: Cave (v. i.) To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter..

Scaur :: Scaur (n.) A precipitous bank or rock; a scar.

Examine :: Examine (v. t.) To interrogate as in a judicial proceeding; to try or test by question; as, to examine a witness in order to elicit testimony, a student to test his qualifications, a bankrupt touching the state of his property, etc..

Credit Mobilier :: Credit mobilier () A joint stock company, formed for general banking business, or for the construction of public works, by means of loans on personal estate, after the manner of the credit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed..

Terrace :: Terrace (v.) A street, or a row of houses, on a bank or the side of a hill; hence, any street, or row of houses..

Bank Swallow :: Bank swallow () See under 1st Bank, n..