banknoun [ C ]
uk/bæŋk/us/bæŋk/bank noun [ C ] (MONEY)
A1 an organization where people and businesses can invest or borrow money, change it to foreign money, etc., or a building where these services are offered:
In gambling, the bank is money that belongs to the owner and can be won by the players.
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- I must go to the bank and change some money.
- The bank agreed to lend me a top-up of £500.
- The bank became suspicious after several large withdrawals were made from his account in a single week.
- I used to work in the local branch of a large bank.
- The four biggest banks are all planning to cut their service charges.
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Banks
- banking
- building society
- central bank
- clearing house
- credit
- credit union
- e-bank
- exchange rate
- financial services
- foreign exchange
- gnome
- merchant bank
- mutual
- negotiable
- pay
- personal identification number
- rate of exchange
- statement
- the IMF
- thrift
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bank noun [ C ] (RIVER)
B2 sloping raised land, especially along the sides of a river:
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- Rats had burrowed into the bank of the river.
- The geese were strung out along the river bank.
- We pushed the boat off from the river bank.
- There were several families picnicking on the river bank.
- The children pelted down the bank, over the bridge and along the path.
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Geography: banks & embankments
- bluff
- dune
- embankment
- hummock
- levee
- mound
- riverbank
- riverine
- riverside
- sandbank
- sandbar
- shoal
- snow bank
- terraced
bank noun [ C ] (MASS)
a pile or mass of earth, clouds, etc.:
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Geography: banks & embankments
- bluff
- dune
- embankment
- hummock
- levee
- mound
- riverbank
- riverine
- riverside
- sandbank
- sandbar
- shoal
- snow bank
- terraced
bank noun [ C ] (ROWS)
a row of similar things, especially machines or parts of machines:
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Groups and collections of things
- agglomeration
- Aladdin's cave
- anthology
- assemblage
- basket
- batch
- cache
- ensemble
- feast
- generation
- glory box
- grab bag
- group
- package
- pool
- sheaf
- sheaves
- subgroup
- vintage
- wad
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bank noun [ C ] (STORE)
A bank of something, such as blood or human organs for medical use, is a place that stores these things for later use:
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Keeping and storing things
- appropriate
- aside
- capture
- cling
- cling (on) to sth
- earmark
- enshrine
- lay
- maintain
- pack sth away
- put sth away
- repository
- reserve
- reserved
- storage
- store
- store sth up
- stow
- stow (sth) away
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bankverb
uk/bæŋk/us/bæŋk/bank verb (MONEY)
[ I or T ] to keep your money in a particular bank, or to put money into a bank:
[ T ] informal to win or earn a particular amount of money:
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Saving money
- deposit account
- depositor
- direct deposit
- interest rate
- ISA
- money box
- on deposit idiom
- pension plan
- put
- rainy
- salt sth away
- save
- save/keep money for a rainy day idiom
- saver
- saving
- savings account
- scrimp
- sock
- TESSA
- war chest
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bank verb (TURN)
[ I ] (of an aircraft) to fly with one wing higher than the other when turning:
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Air travel: aviation
- aerial
- aero-
- Air Miles
- air-dash
- airlift
- airspeed
- baggage allowance
- bail
- bomber
- buzz
- crash-land
- FAA
- flight
- flight simulator
- fly
- holding pattern
- lane
- slipstream
- throttle
- throttle (sth) back/down
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bank verb (MASS)
[ I or T ] to collect in or form into a mass, or to make something do this:
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Collecting and amassing
- a pack rat idiom
- accumulate
- amass
- assemble
- blackberry
- bunch
- collect
- compilation
- concentration
- garner
- gather
- glean
- harvest
- load up on sth
- magpie
- numismatics
- philatelist
- philately
- scrape
- store
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