banking
IPA: bˈæŋkɪŋ
noun
- The business of managing a bank.
- The occupation of managing or working in a bank.
- (finance) Investment banking.
- (aviation) A horizontal turn.
- A mechanical component to prevent vibration in a timepiece, etc.
- (rail transport) The practice of assisting a train up a steep incline (called a bank) with another locomotive at the rear.
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Examples of "banking" in Sentences
- Your banking is a more hacker desirable target than your health information.
- He created his Grameen Bank by turning the tenets of what we know as banking upside down.
- But a system of banking, sometimes called _free banking_, has more recently been adopted in some states.
- The term banking was then applied only to the issue of notes and the taking up of money on bills on demand.
- After these banks had been long established, they began to do what we call banking business; but at first they never thought of it.
- TARP's roots officially date to Friday, Oct. 3, when jittery lawmakers authorized what they called a banking bailout, worth $700 billion and loosely defined.
- Today let's look at credit cards, which can cost retailers more than three times as much as debit cards to process and which are increasingly falling under a host of new federal regulations as officials crack down on what they call the banking industry's most abusive practices.
- Christensen and his colleagues are the type of "educators" that whittle education down to a teacher, textbook, or - in the near future - software companies depositing information into the "empty" minds of students Freire's critique of what he describes as banking theory; Christensen takes the banking theory digital.
- Euro 560 million, mainly driven by Italy (mostly non repeat of the 2010 fiscal amnesty and stronger focus on Unit-Linked products), Belgium (more conservative offer in a low profitability environment) and France (uncertainties in February and March 2011 on Life insurance tax regulation and competition from short term banking accounts with higher offered rates).