Banks
/bæŋks/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Definition of Banks
noun
- An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
- A branch office of such an institution.
- An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque.
- A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
- The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
verb
noun
- An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
- An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).
"the banks of Newfoundland"
- A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
- The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
- An incline, a hill.
verb
noun
- A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
"a bank of pay phones"
- A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
- A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
- A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
noun
- A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
- A bench or seat for judges in court.
- The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc.
- A kind of table used by printers.
- A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
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