'Bank credit' definitions:

Definition of 'Bank credit'

From: GCIDE
  • Bank \Bank\, n. [F. banque, It. banca, orig. bench, table, counter, of German origin, and akin to E. bench; cf. G. bank bench, OHG. banch. See Bench, and cf. Banco, Beach.]
  • 1. An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The building or office used for banking purposes. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A fund to be used in transacting business, especially a joint stock or capital. [1913 Webster]
  • Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Gaming) The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw; in Monopoly, the fund of money used to pay bonuses due to the players, or to which they pay fines. [1913 Webster +PJC]
  • 6. a place where something is stored and held available for future use; specifically, an organization that stores biological products for medical needs; as, a blood bank, an organ bank, a sperm bank. [PJC]
  • Bank credit, a credit by which a person who has given the required security to a bank has liberty to draw to a certain extent agreed upon.
  • Bank of deposit, a bank which receives money for safe keeping.
  • Bank of issue, a bank which issues its own notes payable to bearer. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Bank credit'

From: GCIDE
  • Credit \Cred"it\ (kr[e^]d"[i^]t), n. [F. cr['e]dit (cf. It. credito), L. creditum loan, prop. neut. of creditus, p. p. of credere to trust, loan, believe. See Creed.]
  • 1. Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust; confidence. [1913 Webster]
  • When Jonathan and the people heard these words they gave no credit unto them, nor received them. --1 Macc. x. 46. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Reputation derived from the confidence of others; esteem; honor; good name; estimation. [1913 Webster]
  • John Gilpin was a citizen Of credit and renown. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A ground of, or title to, belief or confidence; authority derived from character or reputation. [1913 Webster]
  • The things which we properly believe, be only such as are received on the credit of divine testimony. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. That which tends to procure, or add to, reputation or esteem; an honor. [1913 Webster]
  • I published, because I was told I might please such as it was a credit to please. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Influence derived from the good opinion, confidence, or favor of others; interest. [1913 Webster]
  • Having credit enough with his master to provide for his own interest. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Com.) Trust given or received; expectation of future playment for property transferred, or of fulfillment or promises given; mercantile reputation entitling one to be trusted; -- applied to individuals, corporations, communities, or nations; as, to buy goods on credit. [1913 Webster]
  • Credit is nothing but the expectation of money, within some limited time. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. The time given for payment for lands or goods sold on trust; as, a long credit or a short credit. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Bookkeeping) The side of an account on which are entered all items reckoned as values received from the party or the category named at the head of the account; also, any one, or the sum, of these items; -- the opposite of debit; as, this sum is carried to one's credit, and that to his debit; A has several credits on the books of B. [1913 Webster]
  • Bank credit, or Cash credit. See under Cash.
  • Bill of credit. See under Bill.
  • Letter of credit, a letter or notification addressed by a banker to his correspondent, informing him that the person named therein is entitled to draw a certain sum of money; when addressed to several different correspondents, or when the money can be drawn in fractional sums in several different places, it is called a {circular letter of credit}.
  • Public credit. (a) The reputation of, or general confidence in, the ability or readiness of a government to fulfill its pecuniary engagements. (b) The ability and fidelity of merchants or others who owe largely in a community. [1913 Webster]
  • He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. --D. Webster. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'bank credit'

From: GCIDE
  • Cash \Cash\ (k[a^]sh), n. [F. caisse case, box, cash box, cash. See Case a box.] A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • This bank is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money. --Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster]
  • [pounds]20,000 are known to be in her cash. --Sir R. Winwood. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Com.) (a) Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money. (b) Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash. [1913 Webster]
  • Cash account (Bookkeeping), an account of money received, disbursed, and on hand.
  • Cash boy, in large retail stores, a messenger who carries the money received by the salesman from customers to a cashier, and returns the proper change. [Colloq.]
  • Cash credit, an account with a bank by which a person or house, having given security for repayment, draws at pleasure upon the bank to the extent of an amount agreed upon; -- called also bank credit and cash account.
  • Cash sales, sales made for ready, money, in distinction from those on which credit is given; stocks sold, to be delivered on the day of transaction.
  • Syn: Money; coin; specie; currency; capital. [1913 Webster]