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BANKING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Transacting business with a bank; depositing or withdrawing funds or requesting a loan etc.
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("banking" is a kind of...):
finance (the commercial activity of providing funds and capital)
Domain member category:
no-good; rubber (returned for lack of funds)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "banking"):
home banking (banking in which transactions are conducted by means of electronic communication (via telephone or computer))
Derivation:
bank (put into a bank account)
bank (do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Engaging in the business of keeping money for savings and checking accounts or for exchange or for issuing loans and credit etc.
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("banking" is a kind of...):
finance (the management of money and credit and banking and investments)
Domain member category:
right of offset ((banking) the legal right of a bank to seize deposited funds to cover a loan that is in default)
Derivation:
bank (be in the banking business)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb bank
Context examples:
“My name,” answered our visitor, “is probably familiar to your ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street.”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection and the number of our depositors.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit and investment securities and they stood on my shelf in red and gold like new money from the mint, promising to unfold the shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Maecenas knew.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
