banking definition

English banking definition

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæŋkɪŋ/

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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. […]

5. (rail transport) The practice of assisting a train up a steep incline (called a bank) with another locomotive at the rear.

Synonyms

• bankerage (obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

banking

1. present participle of bank

Romanian banking definition

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English banking.

Noun

banking n (uncountable)

1. banking

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