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bank up

/bangk/US // bæŋk //UK // (bæŋk) //

银行,存款,存款银行

Related Words

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a long pile or heap; mass: a bank of earth; a bank of clouds.
    • : a slope or acclivity.
    • : Physical Geography. the slope immediately bordering a stream course along which the water normally runs.
    • : a broad elevation of the sea floor around which the water is relatively shallow but not a hazard to surface navigation.
    • : Coal Mining. the surface around the mouth of a shaft.
    • : Also called cant, superelevation. the inclination of the bed of a banked road or railroad.
    • : Aeronautics. the lateral inclination of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
    • : Billiards, Pool. the cushion of the table.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to border with or like a bank; embank: banking the river with sandbags at flood stage.
    • : to form into a bank or heap: to bank up the snow.
    • : to build with an upward slope from the inner edge to the outer edge at a curve.
    • : Aeronautics. to tip or incline laterally.
    • : Billiards, Pool. to drive to the cushion.to pocket by driving it against the bank.
    • : to cover with ashes or fuel to make it burn long and slowly.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to build up in or form banks, as clouds or snow.
    • : Aeronautics. to tip or incline an airplane laterally.
    • : Horology. to be halted at either end of its oscillation by striking a pin or the like.
    • : to slope upward from the inner edge to the outer edge at a curve.

Phrases

  • bank on
  • break the bank
  • laugh all the way to the bank

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Because they could not obtain bank financing, the company’s founders believed their only option was borrowing from hard-money lenders at exorbitant rates.

  • The Fed prefers a little inflation because that gives the central bank more room to cut or raise short-term interest rates.

  • The actual total is probably higher because many banks eliminate staff without disclosing their plans.

  • Fraser, of course, will become the first woman chief executive of a big Wall Street bank in February.

  • Russak-Aminoach’s decision to join Team8 is a stark departure from her prior role leading a legacy bank that dates back to 1902.

  • One that they cannot cash in at the bank to pay for their flats.

  • A tugboat improbably sits high on the bank, obscured by tall grass, a broken oil rig hangs over the water nearby.

  • But just up the steep river bank and through the brush is an opening.

  • He was surprised that the central bank did not understand that.

  • At this point in his life, Denton has enough filthy lucre in his bank account to affect a certain lack of interest in the stuff.

  • In sorting notes it is necessary to be able readily to distinguish between notes of this bank and notes of other reserve banks.

  • Thus far Boston banks have received more benefits from this bank than have the other banks in this district.

  • The weed growing over every water, and at the bank of the river, shall be pulled up before all grass.

  • The dormant accounts most of the banks maintain with the reserve bank are, perhaps, indicative of their attitude toward it.

  • At the reserve bank they may borrow as a standing right and not as a favor which may be cut off.