单词 | bank run |
释义 | > as lemmasbank run bank run n. a sudden rush of demands for repayment from a bank or other financial institution on the part of a large number of depositors; cf. run n.2 39a(a). ΚΠ 1857 New Albany (Indiana) Daily Tribune 9 Oct. ‘Hard times,’ ‘suspensions,’ ‘bank runs,’ ‘protests’—these phrases have appeared and re-appeared, in every possible shape and connection, in every newspaper in the land. 1938 Life 4 Apr. 12 (caption) The Hoover Depression had spectacular offshoots—breadlines, hunger marchers, bank runs, rioting farmers, rabble-rousers. 2002 I. Mallick in A. K. Bagchi Money & Credit Indian Hist. 213 Modern iconoclasts in the world of theoretical finance..would see optimality in bank runs..and tell the policy-makers to allow runs because things ‘would get worse otherwise’. < as lemmas |
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