An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
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”.
A branch office of such an institution.
An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
Tiber trembled underneath her banks.
An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth
the banks of Newfoundland
A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojans sweep / Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.
To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
He banked with Barclays.
To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
A village in the New Forest in Hampshire, England.
A major London Underground station in the City of London, named after the Bank of England and one of the busiest stations on the network (OS grid ref TQ3281
A surname.
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, fr...
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To arrange or order in a row.