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Definition of Banking

1. Noun. Engaging in the business of keeping money for savings and checking accounts or for exchange or for issuing loans and credit etc..

2. Noun. Transacting business with a bank; depositing or withdrawing funds or requesting a loan etc..

Definition of Banking

1. n. The business of a bank or of a banker.

Definition of Banking

1. Noun. The business of managing a bank ¹

2. Noun. The occupation of managing or working in a bank ¹

3. Noun. (aviation) A horizontal turn. ¹

4. Verb. (present participle of bank) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Banking

1. the business of a bank [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Banking

banker's lien banker's liens banker lamp bankeress bankeresses bankerish bankerly bankers bankers' drafts bankers' draughts

bankers' hours bankes banket bankets bankhart deformity banking (current term) banking company banking concern banking game banking industry

banking system bankings bankit bankits bankless banklike banknote banknotes bankr. bankroll

Literary usage of Banking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1854)
"The committee ascertained from the books of the banking Department the amount of circulating notes issued to each banking association and individual banker, ..."

2. The Law Reports by Great Britain Court of Chancery, George Wirgman Hemming (1869)
"A banking company (A), unauthorized to accept as security shares in a public company except by a transfer to a third person, took a transfer of shares in a ..."

3. Financial History of the United States by Davis Rich Dewey (1902)
"The clearest exposition of the theory of banking, with reference to American ... GOUGE, WILLIAM M. Short History of Paper Money and banking in the United ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Roger Meeson, William Newland Welsby, John Innes Clark Hare, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Horace Binney Wallace (1849)
"A declaration in debt by the public officer of a banking company described ... The office of public registered officer of a banking copartnership not being ..."

5. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1912)
"transacting banking business without legal authority. Recommended that act of incorporation be repealed, or that Socy. be legally authorized to exercise ..."

6. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1921)
"(106 SE) under a fl. fa. in favor of the Loganville banking Company. Judgment ordering the case to proceed In the. name of the banking Company for the use ..."

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