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(finance) One who engages in arbitrage, such as a financial broker or an investment bank.
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(banking, economics) A bank created to specialize in the ownership of defaulted loans and their collection.
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(banking, finance) Any money of coinage or currency that is depreciated, mutilated, or debased.
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(informal) a note of Japanese invasion money.
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(US, business) Used to associate a non-banking affiliate of a bank with the bank's brand name without using the word bank
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An organisation operating a bancassurance scheme.
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Obsolete form of bank. [(countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.]
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Obsolete form of bank. [(countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.]
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(attributive) A bank, especially that of Venice; formerly used to indicate bank money, as distinguished from the current money when it has become depreciated.
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(countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
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(euphemistic) A closure of banks in a jurisdiction to curtail or prevent a bank run.
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A banker in charge of a local branch of a bank.
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(banking, finance) A medium of exchange which consists solely of checks and drafts.
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Alternative form of banknote [A piece of paper currency.]
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A bank which issues its own notes payable to bearer.
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(finance, archaic) Banknotes in circulation.
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An event where many depositors of one or more banks withdraw money from their bank accounts within a short time, causing the banks concerned to become unstable.
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Alternative form of bancassurance [(insurance) A banking and insurance structure in which insurance is sold through the bank or the bank's distribution channels.]
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One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.
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(business, banking, finance) A negotiable instrument or time draft drawn on and accepted by a bank, that upon acceptance becomes an obligation of the bank and is a marketable money-market instrument.
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(UK, politics) An economic crisis engineered by bankers for political ends.
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A brokerage institution that also offers banking services.
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The world of bankers and finance.
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Alternative form of banky ('blanket') [A child's blanket.]
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(banking, business) Resembling an institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
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A piece of paper currency.
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(informal) The excessive power of the banks over government.
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(law) Abbreviation of bankruptcy. [(finance, law) A legally declared or recognized condition of insolvency of a person or organization.]
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One who bankrolls; usually an individual who has enough seed capital to launch a venture; one who can fund a project; angel investor.
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(India, historical) A warehouse.
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(informal, derogatory) A banker who is seen as criminally irresponsible, or as extorting bailout money from the taxpayers.
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Criminally irresponsible banking activities.
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Alternative form of bank (“underwriter or controller of a card game”) [(countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.]
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(banking, historical) A typee of money in the form of metal bars, specifically the rectangular stamped coins used in Ceylon and in the Dutch East Indies.
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(UK) Especially, the interest rate at which the Bank of England lends money to commercial banks.
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(finance) The four largest banks in any of various countries, or (internationally) the Federal Reserve, People's Bank of China, Bank of Japan, and European Central Bank.
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Alternative spelling of bill discounter [(archaic) A moneylender.]
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(very rare) The study and collecting of paper money and banknotes
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(Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, banking) A type of financial institution which traditionally was based on lending money (as mortgages) to society members to buy houses, from other members pooled savings and/or money borrowed wholesale.
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(historical, banking, finance) A type of coinage historically used in Siam (now Thailand) and its predecessor kingdoms.
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(UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia) A place where foreign currency can be exchanged.
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(Guyana) bureau de change; currency exchange
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A banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange.
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(countable, Canada) Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located.
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(dated, informal) In large retail stores, a male messenger who carries the money received by the salesman from customers to a cashier, and returns the proper change.
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(historical) Any of various mechanical assemblies used in large shops to carry customers' payments from the sales assistant to the cashier and to carry the change and receipt back again.
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Person in charge of the cash of a business or bank.
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(banking) The principal monetary authority of a polity or monetary union; it normally regulates the supply of money, issues currency and controls interest rates. It usually oversees banking activity within its country's borders.
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(UK) A small, recently created retail bank in the United Kingdom that competes directly with the longer-established banks, sometimes by specializing in underserved areas.
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A person employed in changing or discounting money.
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(finance, historical) A banknote issued for the convenience of travellers, being a kind of bill that is personal to the bearer, who is also given a corresponding 'letter of indication' addressed to foreign bankers.
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The service mark under which Citicorp offers banking services.
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(Britain) A banker, stockbroker or other financial worker in the City.
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(finance) A joint drawer of funds.
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A person who makes coins (often counterfeit coins).
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(banking) A bank whose chief business is accepting demand deposits and making short-term loans.
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The economic measures taken in Argentina at the end of 2001 by Minister of Economy Domingo Cavallo in order to stop a bank run.
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(UK, finance, historical) A regulation that limited the growth of British banks' interest-bearing deposits.
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the enterprise whose primary activity is banking and credit provision
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A simple paper device designed to hold a specific denomination and number of banknotes.
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(banking, finance) Demand deposits at a financial institution which can be utilized as money by drawing checks.
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A person who makes a deposit, especially a deposit of money in a bank.
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(India, historical) Indian government securities whose principal and interest are enfaced as payable in silver rupees.
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(finance) A financial institution (not necessarily located in Europe) that accepts deposits, and makes loans, in foreign currencies.
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(finance, historical) A deposit, in Dutch guilders, held in a bank outside of the Netherlands.
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(finance) A deposit, in pounds sterling, held in a bank outside of the United Kingdom.
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Export-Import Bank of the United States
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(business, banking, finance) An institution, such as a bank, insurance company or fund, that provides financial services for its clients or members.
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(business, finance) Financial institutions, as a group, such as banks and insurance companies.
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(rare, archaic) A person involved in finance.
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(countable, finance, UK) A security issued by the Bank of England (see gilt-edged).
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(finance, of securities) Issued by the Bank of England.
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(often derogatory) A banker, especially a secretive international one.
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(obsolete) A banker (because the goldsmiths of London used to receive money on deposit, being equipped to keep it safely).
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A British multinational universal bank and financial services company.
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(informal) investment banking
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(banking, finance) A financial institution that deals with raising capital, trading in securities and managing corporate mergers and acquisitions.
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(finance) A banker who works for an investment bank.
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A bank which issues notes based on the security of landed property.
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(UK) Lloyds Bank, a British retail and commercial bank.
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(rare) A banker or moneylender.
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(informal) A major bank.
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A bank which provides financial services for businesses.
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A businessman employed at, or a partner at a merchant bank.
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A coin or other item of currency.
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(finance) A broker who deals in different kinds of money; one who buys and sells bills of exchange; money changer.
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A person who will exchange currency of one type for another for a fee or percentage.
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(informal, humorous) A notional "printer" representing a government's ability to issue money.
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Alternative spelling of money changer [A person who will exchange currency of one type for another for a fee or percentage.]
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Alternative form of moneymaker [Someone or something that earns or makes money; anything lucrative or profitable.]
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Alternative spelling of money changer [A person who will exchange currency of one type for another for a fee or percentage.]
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(historical) Someone who makes coins; an official minter.
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(obsolete) One who makes (especially counterfeit) money.
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Someone tasked with handling money, often specifically a financier
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Alternative form of moneyer [(archaic) A moneylender.]
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Money, especially paper money, that is perceived to have little or no value, or to be distributed freely.
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(UK, finance) An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.
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(finance) A modern type of direct bank that operates exclusively online without a traditional physical branch network
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(rare) A bank that operates over the Internet.
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money or currency (modern).
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(US, slang, dated) One who buys banknotes at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest.
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(banking, finance) Third party API access to a consumer's banking data in order to create new services and products.
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(finance) special drawing rights
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A type of joss paper resembling banknotes burnt to venerate the deceased, ancestor spirits, deities, etc.
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Alternative form of paper money [Cash in the form of banknotes.]
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A local community banking co-op, often set up as an initiative for a social group unable to get formal credit or bank accounts, notably West Indians in Britain.
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(banking, historical) A type of money issued in Sweden in the 17th and 18th centuries consisting of large rectangular pieces of copper.
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(India, obsolete) A cash-keeper, especially an officer attached to a treasury, responsible for weighing money and bullion and appraising the value of coins.
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(finance) An investment banker who manages the portfolio of a private individual.
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(Britain, informal) Cash, especially bank notes.
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(Australia, India, New Zealand, South Africa, and other countries) A central bank.
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(banking) A bank whose chief business is providing banking services to the general public.
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Alternative form of bank run [An event where many depositors of one or more banks withdraw money from their bank accounts within a short time, causing the banks concerned to become unstable.]
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(US, banking) A savings and loan association.
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(finance, banking) A bank account designed for a client's savings, which compared to a current account typically entails withdrawal restrictions but yields a better interest
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(US, finance) Synonym of building society
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A type of financial institution that focuses on retail banking: savings of private depositors, payments, credits and insurances for individuals or small and medium-sized enterprises.
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Alternative spelling of savings bank
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(India) A banker or moneychanger.
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(obsolete) One whose business is to place money at interest; a broker.
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(banking, derogatory) An entity that illegally performs banking functions.
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(banking, economics, finance) An agent connected to a shadow banking.
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(derogatory, banking, finance, economics) Non-bank financial institutions, that, like banks, borrow short and in liquid forms and lend or invest long in more illiquid assets.
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(India) A provider of financial services, especially a small-scale independent banker or money changer or (historical) a local expert at detecting bad coin.
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(US) A loan shark; a usurer.
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(set phrase) Paper currency which consists of small-denomination banknotes that have not been inscribed with hidden markings which would help authorities identify and trace them.
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(historical, banking) An early form of coin and commodity money used during the Zhou dynasty in China.
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(numismatics) A banknote printed for distribution to central banks to aid in the recognition of banknotes from a country other than their own
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The profession of a stockbroker.
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(literally) A bank (financial institution) in Switzerland.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Swiss, bank account.
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(US, finance) A Treasury bill.
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(rare) Someone who holds an account at any of several banks called TD Bank.
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(banking, chiefly US) A bank clerk who receives and pays out money.
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The office or employment of a teller.
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(banking, finance) A bank that is both a commercial bank and investment bank, which may also be a retail bank, insurance broker and/or provider of other financial services.
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(banking) A credit card company.
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A person who is involved in Wall Street.
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(Canada, US, finance) A major brokerage company, generally nationwide, with multiple branches.
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(finance, banking, derogatory) A bank that is insolvent but is propped up by government intervention.
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(finance, banking, derogatory) An individual or banker involved in a zombie bank.
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