bank
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From Italian banco, "bench", from the benches in public places from which the first bankers in Renaissance Italy would operate.
The bank of a river or lake is from Old English banca, Old Norse banke and Middle English bank.
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- Rhymes: -æŋk
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bank (plural banks)
- An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
- A branch office of such an institution
- A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
- A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
- a bank of switches
- An edge of river or other watercourse.
- (nautical) 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).
- An embankment
- (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
- A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
- (rail transport) an incline, a hill
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to bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)
- (aviation, intransitive) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
- (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution.
- He banked with Barclays.
- (transitive) To put into a bank.
- I'm going to bank the money.
- (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
- (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.
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bank
- bank (financial institution)
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| Nominative bank |
Genitive banknıñ |
Dative bankqa |
| Accusative banknı |
Locative bankta |
Ablative banktan |
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bank
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bank (plural banks)
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bank (plural banks)
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bank m. and f. (plural banken, diminutive bankje)
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bank (plural bankok)
- bank (financial institution)
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bank
- the bank of a river or lake
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- IPA: /bɑŋk/
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bank m. (definite singular banken; indefinite plural banker; definite plural bankene)
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IPA: [baŋk]
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bank m. (plural banki, instrumental singular bankiem)
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| Inflection for bank | Singular | Plural | ||
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| Nominative | bank | banken | banker | bankerna |
| Genitive | banks | bankens | bankers | bankernas |
bank c.
- bank (financial institution, branch of such an institution)
- bank (place of storage)
- bank (of a river of lake)
- sandbank
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bank
- bank (financial institution)

