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单词 bank
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banknoun [ C ]

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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:

The big banks have been accused of exploiting small firms.
I need to go to the bank at lunchtime.
I had to take out a bank loan to start my own business.

In gambling, the bank is money that belongs to the owner and can be won by the players.

More examples

  • 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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Gambling & bookmaking
Amounts of money

bank noun [ C ] (RIVER)

B2 sloping raised land, especially along the sides of a river:

By the time we reached the opposite bank, the boat was sinking fast.
These flowers generally grow on river banks and near streams.

More examples

  • 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.:

A dark bank of cloud loomed on the horizon.

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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:

a bank of switches

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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:

a blood bank
a sperm bank

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Keeping and storing things

  • appropriate
  • aside
  • capture
  • cling
  • cling (on) to sth
  • earmark
  • enshrine
  • lay
  • maintain
  • pack sth away
  • pocket
  • put sth away
  • repository
  • reserve
  • reserved
  • storage
  • store
  • store sth up
  • stow
  • stow (sth) away

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bankverb

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bank verb (MONEY)

[ I or T ] to keep your money in a particular bank, or to put money into a bank:

I used to bank with Lloyd's.

[ T ] informal to win or earn a particular amount of money:

She banked £500 in tips that day!

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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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Banks
Earning money
Winning and defeating

bank verb (TURN)

[ I ] (of an aircraft) to fly with one wing higher than the other when turning:

We felt the plane bank steeply as it changed direction.

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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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Slanting, sloping, leaning, tilting

bank verb (MASS)

[ I or T ] to collect in or form into a mass, or to make something do this:

The snow had banked up in the corner of the garden.
We banked up the fire (= put more coal on it) to keep it burning all night.

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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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Phrasal verb(s)

bank on sb/sth

banknoun [ C ]

uk/bæŋk/us

BANKING, FINANCE an organization where people and businesses can keep, invest, or borrow money, exchange currencies, etc., or a building where these services are offered:

The bank gave me a loan to start my new business.
All the major domestic and foreign banks were affected by the crisis.
in the bank At that time, we had very little money in the bank.
put/pay sth into the bank Your fee will be paid directly into the bank.
take sth out of the bank They had taken all of their cash out of the bank.
I need to go to the bank at lunch time.
The bank has branches in most major towns.

[ C ] an amount of something that is kept to be used:

Our company offers an unparalleled bank of information on the real-estate business.
the Bank

BANKING the accepting house :

The Bank has kept interest rates at the same level this month.

See also

acceptance bank
advising bank
agent bank
agricultural bank
central bank
clearing bank
commercial bank
confirming bank
cooperative bank
correspondent bank
credit bank
databank
development bank
eligible bank
Export-Import Bank
the European Central Bank
the Federal Reserve Bank
high street bank
investment bank
joint-stock bank
land bank
lead bank
merchant bank
money centre bank
mutual savings bank
national bank
paying bank
private bank
reserve bank
retail bank
savings bank
shadow bank
state bank
stock savings bank
universal bank
wholesale bank
the World Bank

bankverb [ I or T ]

uk/bæŋk/us

BANKING to keep your money in a particular bank, or to put money into a bank:

bank with sb I've banked with Lloyd's for many years.
She banked most of the prize money she had received.

to earn or win a particular amount of money:

The former governor banked more than $135,000 in speaking fees.
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