1. Engaging in the business of keeping money for savings and checking accounts or for exchange or for issuing loans and credit etc.
   "The new regulations affected various aspects of banking"
    
2. Transacting business with a bank; depositing or withdrawing funds or requesting a loan etc.
   "Online banking has made financial transactions more convenient for customers"

1. Do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank
   "Where do you bank in this town?"
    
2. Be in the banking business
   "Her family has banked for generations"
    
3. Put into a bank account
   "She banks her paycheque every month";
   - deposit
    
4. Act as the banker in a game or in gambling
   "Who wants to bank for this round of poker?"
    
5. Enclose with a bank
   "bank roads"
    
6. Tip laterally
   "the pilot had to bank the aircraft"
    
7. Cover with ashes so as to control the rate of burning
   "bank a fire"
    
8. Have faith or confidence in
   "you can bank on me to help you any time";
   - count, bet, depend, swear, rely, look, calculate, reckon

Derived forms: bankings

Type of: act, close in, cover, enclose, finance, give, inclose, shut in, tip, transact, trust, work

Antonym: draw off

Encyclopedia: Banking, Insurance and General Workers Union