'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'

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