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Webster 1913 Edition
Banking
Bank′ing
,Noun.
The business of a bank or of a banker.
Banking house
, an establishment or office in which, or a firm by whom, banking is done.
Webster 1828 Edition
Banking
BANK'ING
,ppr.
BANK'ING
,Noun.
Definition 2024
banking
banking
English
Noun
banking (countable and uncountable, plural bankings)
- The business of managing a bank.
- 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.
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- (aviation) A horizontal turn.
- 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. […]
- 1825, Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain), Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce
Derived terms
Translations
business
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occupation
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aviation: horizontal turn
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mechanical component to prevent vibration
Synonyms
- bankerage (obsolete)
Verb
banking
- present participle of bank