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noun

Banking n. The business of a bank or of a banker.

Banking house, an establishment or office in which, or a firm by whom, banking is done.

verb

Bank v. t. (past & past part. banked; pres. part. banking)

To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank. "Banked well with earth."

To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.

To pass by the banks of. (Obs.)

(Engineering) To build (a roadway or railroad) with an inclination at a curve in the road, so as to counteract centrifugal forces acting on vehicles moving rapiudly around the curve, thus reducing the danger of vehicles overturning at a curve; as, the raceway was steeply banked at the curves.

To bank a fire, To bank up a fire, to cover the coals or embers with ashes or cinders, thus keeping the fire low but alive.

Bank v. t. To deposit in a bank.

Bank v. i.

To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.

To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.

Bank v. i. (Aeronautics) To tilt sidewise in rounding a curve; said of a flying machine, an aerocurve, or the like.

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"Banking" Quotes from Famous Books

... later there was a paragraph in the Times from Miss Nightingale herself, referring to the gifts for the soldiers that had been offered so lavishly: "Miss Nightingale neither invites nor refuses the generous offers. Her banking account is open at Messrs. Coutts's." On October 30th, the Times republished from the Examiner a letter, headed, "Who is Miss Nightingale?" and signed "One who has known her." Then was made known to the British public for the first time who the woman that had gone to the aid of the sick and ...

— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8 • Various

... render accounts to the Board of Trade not less than twice a year; and must pay all money received into the Bankruptcy Estates Account, kept by the Board of Trade at the Bank of England, and not, in any circumstances, into his private banking account. ...

— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous

... orders, or bank drafts, payable to: Register of Copyrights. Do not send cash. Drafts must be redeemable without service or exchange fee through a U. S. institution, must be payable in U. S. dollars, and must be imprinted with American Banking Association routing numbers. International Money Orders and Postal Money Orders that are negotiable only at a ...

— Copyright Basics • Library of Congress. Copyright Office.

... Garland was writing, but a cheque which he was laboriously copying into Raffles's cheque-book, from an old cheque abstracted from a pass-book with A. J. RAFFLES in gilt capitals upon its brown leather back. Raffles had only that year opened a banking account, and I remembered his telling me how thoroughly he meant to disregard the instructions on his cheque-book by always leaving it about to advertise the fact. And this was the result. A glance convicted his friend of criminal intent: a sheet of notepaper lay covered ...

— Mr. Justice Raffles • E. W. Hornung

... accountants also; and it remembers that in the same city men are cooks. It is very sure that when Madame Welles, who was afterwards the Marchioness De Lavalette, became at the death of her husband the head of the great banking-house, her cook was ...

— From the Easy Chair, vol. 1 • George William Curtis

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