banking

Meanings

Plural: bankings

Noun

• engaging in the business of keeping money for savings and checking accounts or for exchange or for issuing loans and credit etc.
• transacting business with a bank; depositing or withdrawing funds or requesting a loan etc.
• The business of managing a bank.
• The occupation of managing or working in a bank.
• Investment banking.
• A horizontal turn.
• A mechanical component to prevent vibration in a timepiece, etc.
• The practice of assisting a train up a steep incline (called a bank) with another locomotive at the rear.

Verb

• tip laterally
• enclose with a bank
• do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank
• act as the banker in a game or in gambling
• be in the banking business
• put into a bank account
• cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning
• have confidence or faith in
• present participle and gerund of bank

Synonyms

bank, bankerage, deposit, rely, swear, trust

Antonyms

distrust, mistrust, withdraw