'Banking' definitions:

Definition of 'banking'

From: WordNet
noun
Engaging in the business of keeping money for savings and checking accounts or for exchange or for issuing loans and credit etc.
noun
Transacting business with a bank; depositing or withdrawing funds or requesting a loan etc.

Definition of 'Banking'

From: GCIDE
  • Bank \Bank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Banked(b[a^][ng]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Banking.]
  • 1. To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank. "Banked well with earth." --Holland. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To pass by the banks of. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Engineering) To build (a roadway or railroad) with an inclination at a curve in the road, so as to counteract centrifugal forces acting on vehicles moving rapiudly around the curve, thus reducing the danger of vehicles overturning at a curve; as, the raceway was steeply banked at the curves. [PJC]
  • To bank a fire, To bank up a fire, to cover the coals or embers with ashes or cinders, thus keeping the fire low but alive. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Banking'

From: GCIDE
  • Banking \Bank"ing\, n. The business of a bank or of a banker. [1913 Webster]
  • Banking house, an establishment or office in which, or a firm by whom, banking is done. [1913 Webster] banknote

Synonyms of 'banking'

From: Moby Thesaurus

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