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NATIONAL BANK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A commercial bank chartered by the federal government
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("national bank" is a kind of...):
commercial bank; full service bank (a financial institution that accepts demand deposits and makes loans and provides other services for the public)
Holonyms ("national bank" is a member of...):
Fed; Federal Reserve; Federal Reserve System; FRS (the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state-chartered commercial banks and some trust companies)