Antonyms for bank
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : bangk |
| Phonetic Transcription : bæŋk |
Definition of bank
Origin :- "financial institution," late 15c., from either Old Italian banca or Middle French banque (itself from the Italian word), both meaning "table" (the notion is of the moneylender's exchange table), from a Germanic source (cf. Old High German bank "bench"); see bank (n.2).
- Bank holiday is from 1871, though the tradition is as old as the Bank of England. To cry all the way to the bank was coined 1956 by flamboyant pianist Liberace, after a Madison Square Garden concert that was packed with patrons but panned by critics.
- noun financial institution
- noun ground bounding waters
- noun row or tier of objects
- verb collect money or advantage
- verb lean or tilt
- They were on the bank of a stream of some width, and apparently a deep and rapid one.
- Extract from : « Harriet, The Moses of Her People » by Sarah H. Bradford
- Mr. Sanders came in from the Bank, but he was later than usual.
- Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder
- I should have thought this weather and the bank behind it furnace enough, mother!
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- A bank's not the place to get the knowledge of business necessary for that sort of thing.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- And the angels waiting for them on the bank like laundresses with their clean shirts!
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- He kept close to the bank, looking for some sign of the spot where he had fallen in.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- He had not been to the bank for two days before, and no trace of him was to be found.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- We paid the money into the bank, and then at once I drew it out.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- The other members of O'Hara's party had crawled down the bank by that time.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- One of these missing is worse than a bank clerk out a dollar at the end of the day.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Synonyms for bank
- amass
- array
- beach
- bend
- camber
- cant
- cay
- cliff
- coast
- coffer
- countinghouse
- credit union
- dashboard
- deposit
- depository
- edge
- embankment
- exchequer
- fund
- group
- heap
- hill
- hoard
- incline
- invest
- investment firm
- lakefront
- lakeshore
- lakeside
- lay aside
- lay away
- ledge
- levee
- line
- mass
- mound
- oceanfront
- pile
- pitch
- put by
- rank
- reef
- repository
- reserve
- reservoir
- riverfront
- riverside
- row
- safe
- salt away
- save
- savings
- seabank
- seaboard
- seafront
- sequence
- series
- shore
- slant
- slope
- sock away
- speculate
- squirrel
- stash
- stock
- stockpile
- store
- storehouse
- strand
- streamside
- succession
- thrift
- treasury
- trust company
- vault
- waterfront
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