Meaning of "bank" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BANK

Probably from Italian banca bench, moneychanger's table, of Germanic origin; compare Old High German bancbench.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF BANK

bank  [bæŋk]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BANK

Bank is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb bank in English.

WHAT DOES BANK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bank

A bank is a financial intermediary that accepts deposits and channels those deposits into lending activities, either directly by loaning or indirectly through capital markets. A bank links together customers that have capital deficits and customers with capital surpluses. Due to their importance in the financial system and influence on national economies, banks are highly regulated in most countries. Most nations have institutionalised a system known as fractional reserve banking. They are generally subject to minimum capital requirements based on an international set of capital standards, known as the Basel Accords. Banking in its modern sense evolved in the 14th century in the rich cities of Renaissance Italy but in many ways was a continuation of ideas and concepts of credit and lending that had its roots in the ancient world. In the history of banking, a number of banking dynasties—notably the Medicis, the Fuggers, the Welsers, the Berenbergs and the Rothschilds—have played a central role over many centuries. The oldest existing retail bank is Monte dei Paschi di Siena, while the oldest existing merchant bank is Berenberg Bank.

Definition of bank in the English dictionary

The first definition of bank in the dictionary is an institution offering certain financial services, such as the safekeeping of money, conversion of domestic into and from foreign currencies, lending of money at interest, and acceptance of bills of exchange. Other definition of bank is the building used by such an institution. Bank is also a small container used at home for keeping money.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO BANK

PRESENT

Present

I bank

you bank

he/she/it banks

we bank

you bank

they bank

Present continuous

I am banking

you are banking

he/she/it is banking

we are banking

you are banking

they are banking

Present perfect

I have banked

you have banked

he/she/it has banked

we have banked

you have banked

they have banked

Present perfect continuous

I have been banking

you have been banking

he/she/it has been banking

we have been banking

you have been banking

they have been banking

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I banked

you banked

he/she/it banked

we banked

you banked

they banked

Past continuous

I was banking

you were banking

he/she/it was banking

we were banking

you were banking

they were banking

Past perfect

I had banked

you had banked

he/she/it had banked

we had banked

you had banked

they had banked

Past perfect continuous

I had been banking

you had been banking

he/she/it had been banking

we had been banking

you had been banking

they had been banking

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will bank

you will bank

he/she/it will bank

we will bank

you will bank

they will bank

Future continuous

I will be banking

you will be banking

he/she/it will be banking

we will be banking

you will be banking

they will be banking

Future perfect

I will have banked

you will have banked

he/she/it will have banked

we will have banked

you will have banked

they will have banked

Future perfect continuous

I will have been banking

you will have been banking

he/she/it will have been banking

we will have been banking

you will have been banking

they will have been banking

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would bank

you would bank

he/she/it would bank

we would bank

you would bank

they would bank

Conditional continuous

I would be banking

you would be banking

he/she/it would be banking

we would be banking

you would be banking

they would be banking

Conditional perfect

I would have bank

you would have bank

he/she/it would have bank

we would have bank

you would have bank

they would have bank

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been banking

you would have been banking

he/she/it would have been banking

we would have been banking

you would have been banking

they would have been banking

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you bank
we let´s bank
you bank

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to bank

Past participle

banked

Present Participle

banking

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «BANK»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «bank» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of bank

accumulation · arrangement · array · banking · brink · building society · camber · cant · clear · deposit · depository · dune · edge · embankment · file · fund · group · heap · heel · hill · hillock · hoard · incline · keep · knoll · lakeside · line · margin · mass · merchant bank · mound · pay in · pile · pitch · pool · range · rank · repository · reserve · reservoir · ridge · rise · row · save · sequence · series · shore · side · slant · slope · source · stock · stockpile · store · storehouse · succession · supply · tier · tilt · tip · train · waterside

TRANSLATION OF BANK

Find out the translation of bank to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of bank from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bank» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 堤岸
• Translator English - Spanish: ribera
• English: bank
• Translator English - Hindi: बैंक
• Translator English - Arabic: ضِفَّة
• Translator English - Russian: отмель
• Translator English - Portuguese: margem
• Translator English - Bengali: ব্যাংক
• Translator English - French: rive
• Translator English - Malay: Bank
• Translator English - German: Erdwall
• Translator English - Japanese: 土手
• Translator English - Korean: 둑
• Translator English - Javanese: Bank
• Translator English - Vietnamese: bờ
• Translator English - Tamil: வங்கி
• Translator English - Marathi: बँक
• Translator English - Turkish: banka
• Translator English - Italian: sponda
• Translator English - Polish: brzeg
• Translator English - Ukrainian: берег
• Translator English - Romanian: mal
• Translator English - Greek: όχθη
• Translator English - Afrikaans: bank
• Translator English - Swedish: bank
• Translator English - Norwegian: kant

10 QUOTES WITH «BANK»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word bank.

1

Frank Abagnale

I use a shredder for bank statements and phone bills. Most people use ribbon shredders that cut things straight: we can put those back together in an hour. Look for a security microcut shredder, which cuts papers into confetti.

2

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

Sometimes there are customers who get in difficulty because of situations that are out of their control. These are customers with genuine needs, and the role of the bank is to accommodate these customers, and there is a real need to reschedule the loans of these customers.

3

Douglas Bader

The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.

4

Dan Barber

Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

5

Samantha Barks

I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.

6

Buffalo Bill

As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

7

Mike Bouchard

Just because you have checks in the checkbook doesn't mean that you have money in the bank, and Washington has failed to understand that.

8

Bertolt Brecht

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

9

Bryan Burrough

All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and all the major Depression-era bank robbers, I thought the subject was too big to be a single book. Instead, with a friend's help, I pitched the idea as a miniseries to HBO. To my amazement, they bought it.

10

Vince Cable

I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BANK»

Discover the use of bank in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bank and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The World Bank Since Bretton Woods: The Origins, Policies, ...

The origins, policies, operations, and impact of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the other members of the World Bank group: the International Finance Corporation, the International Development Association, the ...

Edward Sagendorph Mason, Robert E. Asher, 1973

Bank Mergers & Acquisitions

Consequently, financial institutions must achieve a critical size in order to compete. Bank Mergers & Acquisitions analyses the major issues associated with the large wave of bank mergers and acquisitions in the 1990's.

Yakov Amihud, Geoffrey Miller, 1998

Bank

The book charts the progress of BANK through a series of 27 unique, never-to-be-repeated shows united only by attitude and energy: an adrenaline-driven journey through their obsession with the machanics, politics and etiquette of making art ...

Bank, 2000

Grameen Bank: Performance and Sustainability

World Bank Technical Paper No. 295.

Shahidur R. Khandker, M. A. Baqui Khalily, Zahed H. Khan, 1995

Bank Management

The book's unique approach to understanding commercial bank management from a decision-making perspective presents actual bank managers making strong financial decisions.

Timothy Koch, S. MacDonald, 2009

Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 1998

The 1998 Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, the tenth anniversary, was held at the Bank on April 20-21, 1998.

Boris Pleskovic, Joseph E. Stiglitz, 1999

Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social ...

This pathbreaking book is the first close examination of the inner workings of the Bank, the foundations of its achievements, its propensity for intensifying the problems it intends to cure, and its remarkable ability to tame criticism and ...

Michael Goldman, 2008

Bank 3.0: Why Banking Is No Longer Somewhere You Go But ...

In BANK 3.0, Brett King brings the story up to date with the latest trends redefining financial services and payments—from the global scramble for dominance of the mobile wallet and the expectations created by tablet computing to the ...

Brett King, 2012

The World Bank: History

This effort constitutes the most comprehensive and authoritative work to date on the history of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, or the World Bank.

Devesh Kapur, John Prior Lewis, Richard Charles Webb, 1997

Bank

Examines the functions and services of banks, including the day-to-day activities, credit, savings and checking accounts, personnel, automatic tellers, career opportunities, and the history of banking institutions.

Jenny Vaughan, 1988

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BANK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bank is used in the context of the following news items.

Greek Bank Vortex Threatens Deal Hopes -- Heard on the Street - WSJ

People queue at a bank ATM in Athens on Monday. Greek banks are running desperately low on cash. Photo: Agence France-Presse/Getty ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»

In Greece, ATM Lines, Bank Transfer Limits Enter Second Week - WSJ

The European Central Bank tightened the screws Monday, demanding that Greek banks put up more assets as collateral to secure the ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»

EBRD in talks to buy minority stake in Ukraine bank - FT.com

Ukraine's crisis-stricken banking system is set to receive a boost from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which has ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»

Bank employees film mock ISIS beheading video - Business Insider

A spokesperson for HSBC told The Sun that those involved in this "abhorrent" video have been fired and that the bank doesn't tolerate ... «Business Insider, Jul 15»

Greeks Remain Divided as Bank Closure Continues | TIME

Greeks returned to apparently normal humdrum life on Monday after emphatically supporting the government's call to reject loan conditions ... «TIME, Jul 15»

New York Fed Announces New Additions to Bank Leadership Roles …

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Monday that Joshua Rosenberg will become its chief risk officer and executive vice president ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»

UK households paying off mortgages in record time, says Bank of …

UK households paying off mortgages in record time, says Bank of England. Historically low interest rates are encouraging households to use ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»

Holder says bank fines better than 'making examples of people …

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder arrives on US Military aircraft to Lambert-St. Louis International Airport August 20, 2014 in St. Louis, Missouri. «MarketWatch, Jul 15»

Lloyds Bank moves closer to abolishing passwords - Telegraph

Lloyds Bank is close to launching a new system where customers tap their contactless payment cards on their smartphones to prove their ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»

The 'no-hang up' scam targets vulnerable people - and your bank …

That's when fraudsters cold call victims and pretend to be from a bank or the police. They tell their victims that their bank account is at ... «The Independent, Jul 15»