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Webster 1913 Edition

Banking

Bank′ing

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Noun.
The business of a bank or of a banker.
Banking house
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an establishment or office in which, or a firm by whom, banking is done.

Webster 1828 Edition

Banking

BANK'ING

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ppr.
Raising a mound or bank; inclosing with a bank. When we speak of restraining water, we usually call it banking; when we speak of defending the land, we call it imbanking.

BANK'ING

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Noun.
The business or employment of a banker; the business of establishing a common fund for lending money, discounting notes, issuing bills, receiving deposits, collecting the money on notes deposited, negotiating bills of exchange, &c.

Definition 2024

banking

banking

English

Noun

banking ‎(countable and uncountable, plural bankings)

  1. The business of managing a bank.
  2. The occupation of managing or working in a bank.
    • 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
      Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
  3. (aviation) A horizontal turn.
  4. A mechanical component to prevent vibration in a timepiece, etc.
    • 1825, Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain), Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce
      The balances of all moveable time-keepers, the chronometer excepted, are prevented from vibrating beyond the proper arc by what is called bankings. The inferior escapements are very easily banked; a pin fixed in the balance, coming in contact with one or two studs, is sufficient for that purpose. […]

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banking

  1. present participle of bank

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