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antibank en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + bank.

Meanings

1. Opposing banks (financial institutions).
   • Thus, although opponents of the private bank proposal accused its supporters of undermining the colony's sovereignty, the antibank cohort themselves viewed the provincial government's power as circumscribed. 1998, Margaret Ellen Newell, From Dependency to Independence, page 153:
   • By 1824 antibank feeling had triumphed, in that most banks in Ohio had collapsed or gone out of business during the depression[…] 2000, Donald John Ratcliffe, The Politics of Long Division, page 101:

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Translations (1)

pt antibancos (opposing banks (financial institutions))