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Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.[…]Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.

2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:

(countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.

(countable) A branch office of such an institution.

(countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.

Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.

1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Usury”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

(countable) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.

(gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.

Military dude was working for a drug dealer, right? and making good bank with it—he was making good money.

2010, Paul Bouchard, Enlistment, page 113:

(countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.

blood bank; data bank; sperm bank

(countable, chiefly in combination) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.

If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank.

(countable) A device used to store coins or currency.

en-noun

bank (countable and uncountable, plural banks)

banks (plural)
banck (alternative)
bancke (alternative)
banke (alternative)

→ Albanian: bankë

→ Assamese: বেংক (beṅko)

→ Bandjalang: banggu

→ English: bungoo

→ Bengali: ব্যাংক (bêṅko)

→ Bislama: bang

→ Bole: banki

→ Burmese: ဘဏ် (bhan)

→ Chichewa: banki

→ Fijian: baqe

→ Gujarati: બેંક (beṅk)

→ Hausa: banki

→ Hawaiian: panakō

→ Hindi: बैंक (baiṅk)

→ Indonesian: bank

→ Japanese: バンク (banku)

→ Kamba: mbengi

→ Kannada: ಬ್ಯಾಂಕ್ (byāṅk)

→ Kikuyu: bengi

→ Luhya: ebank

→ Maori: pēke

→ Marathi: बँक (bĕṅka)

→ Meru: mbengi

→ Nepali: बैंक (baiṅka)

→ Punjabi: ਬੈਂਕ (baiṅk)

→ Swahili: benki

→ Tamil: வங்கி (vaṅki)

→ Telugu: బ్యాంకు (byāṅku)

→ Thai: แบงก์ (bɛ́ng)

→ Tongan: pangikē

→ Welsh: banc

→ Urdu: بینک (baiṅk)

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.
Proto-Germanic *bankiz
Proto-West Germanic *banki
Lombardic bankbor.
Italian bancabor.
Middle French banqueder.
English bank
From Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of bench, banc, and banco.
For the bench-bank relation, compare typologically Russian ла́вка (lávka), прила́вок (prilávok).


bank

He banked with Barclays.

the sort of face you would happily bank with

1979, Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

(intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.

I’m going to bank the money.

Johnny banked some coke for me.

(transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.

They proposed an ambitious plan to bank people in remote rural communities.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:bank.

(transitive, finance) To provide banking services to.

en-verb

bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)

banks (present singular third-person)
banking (participle present)
banked (participle past)
banked (past)
banck (alternative)
bancke (alternative)
banke (alternative)

olla pankin asiakas

to deal with a bank or financial institution


bank

Tiber trembled underneath her banks.

1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

On the opposite bank of the river other Chinese units attacked Taoshih and Yunmeng north-west of Hankow.

1943 June 8, “Jap Remnants Suffer Heavy Casualties: Alerts In Chungking”, in The Bombay Chronicle, volume XXXI, number 134, page 1:

Just upstream of Dryburgh Abbey, a reproduction of a classical Greek temple stands at the top of a wooded hillock on the river’s north bank.

2014 September 16, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness”, in The Guardian:

(hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.

the banks of Newfoundland

(nautical, hydrology) An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth

(geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.

(aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.

This is the hardest duty on the railway, for the trains are heavy and there are some long 1 in 40 banks.

1940 December, O. S. M. Raw, “The Rhodesia Railways—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 640:

The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.

(mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.

(mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.

Ores are brought to bank.

(mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.

плитчина

an underwater area of higher elevation, a sandbank

From Middle English bank, from Old English hōbanca (“couch”) and Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-Germanic *bankô. Akin to Old Norse bakki (“elevation, hill”), Norwegian bakke (“slope, hill”).


bank

(intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.

(transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.

to bank sand

(transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.

(transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.

Aristoma∣chus would haue them to be stript from their leaues in winter, & in any hand to be banked well about, that the water stand not there in any hollow furrow or hole lower than the other ground

1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:

(transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.

Have I not heard these islanders shout out / Vive le roi! as I have banked their towns?

c. 1595, William Shakespeare, King John, act 5, scene 2:

(transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of.

Some interesting facts have recently been made known by the L.N.E.R. concerning the 178-ton Garratt 2-8-0 + 0-8-2 engine No. 2395, which since construction in 1925 has spent the whole of its working life banking coal trains up the 3 miles of 1 in 40 between Wentworth junction and West Silkstone, on the Worsborough branch, near Barnsley.

1942 March, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes”, in Railway Magazine, page 93:

[...] the 4-4-0 unhappily stalled after a stop on Reading Old Bank with its eight-coach load and the Reading Up Line pilot, a "Hall", had to bank the train into Reading General.

1960 July, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 443:

Soon after leaving Bebra the line rises, mostly at 1 in 74, for 7 miles to Cornberg and all trains of over 400 tons are banked.

1960 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part One”, in Trains Ilustrated, page 558:

(rail transport, UK) To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.


bank

a bank of switches

a bank of pay phones

Wanderers were finally woken from their slumber when Kevin Davies brought a fine save out of Brad Guzan while, minutes after the restart, Klasnic was blocked out by a bank of Villa defenders.

2011 December 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport:

A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.

A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.

(computing) 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.

(pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.

teclat

row of keys on a musical or typewriter keyboard

From Middle English bank (“bank”), banke, from Old French banc (“bench”), from Frankish *bank. Akin to Old English benc (“bench”).


bank

(transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.


bank

Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojans sweep / Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.

1658, Edmund Waller, he Passion of Dido for Æneas:

A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.

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

(archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers.

Edward H[enry] Knight
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(music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.

Probably from French banc. Of Germanic origin, and akin to English bench.