banking en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈbeɪ̯ŋkɪŋ/ æ-raising
- /ˈbæŋkɪŋ/ without æ-raising
- /ˈbɛ̃ŋkɪŋ/ æ-raising
Meanings
- (countable, uncountable) The business of managing a bank.
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(countable, uncountable) The occupation of managing or working in a bank.
Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
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(countable, uncountable) Investment banking.
She became an analyst in banking after graduation, choosing that career path over sales and trading.
- (countable, uncountable) A horizontal turn.
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(countable, uncountable) A mechanical component to prevent vibration in a timepiece, etc.
The balances of all moveable time-keepers, the chronometer excepted, are prevented from vibrating beyond the proper arc by what is called bankings. The inferior escapements are very easily banked; a pin fixed in the balance, coming in contact with one or two studs, is sufficient for that purpose. […]
1825, “Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce”, in Royal Society of Arts, Great Britain:
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(countable, uncountable) The practice of assisting a train up a steep incline (called a bank) with another locomotive at the rear.
On the Dava line, apart from the banking assistance given by the 4-4-0s, the traffic is handled by the standard class "5" 4-6-0s, known among the drivers as "Hikers"; these engines are shedded at Inverness and Perth.
1944 January and February, W. McGowan Gradon, “Forres as a Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 23:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| bankings | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
banking pin · banking engine · banking house · banking game · shadow banking system · time-banking
Hyponyms
shadow banking · e-banking · wildcat banking · food banking · biobanking · landbanking · home banking · neobanking · cyberbanking · seed banking · retail banking · narrow banking · time banking · phone banking · universal banking · fractional reserve banking · investment banking · open banking · online banking · private banking · Internet banking · telebanking · i-banking · commercial banking
Synonyms
Translations (33)
ru вира́ж (aviation: horizontal turn) · pl bankowość (business) · pl ogranicznik (mechanical component to prevent vibration) · ja バンキング (business) · mk банкарство (business) · id perbankan (business) · ja 銀行業務 (business) · kmr bankevanî (occupation) · ru ба́нковское де́ло (occupation) · ja 銀行業 (business) · pl przechył (aviation: horizontal turn) · ko 뱅킹 (business) · hi महाजनी (business) · fi kaarros (aviation: horizontal turn) · fi pankkitoiminta (business) · ja バンキング (occupation) · kmr zivirîn (aviation: horizontal turn) · pl bankowość (occupation) · ru ба́нкинг (occupation) · ru ба́нковское де́ло (business) · fi pankkiala (occupation) · de Banking (business) · cmn 銀行業 /银行业 (business) · ko 은행업무 (business) · ru подта́лкивание (rail transport: helping a train up a steep incline) · ko 뱅킹 (occupation) · es banca (occupation) · pl popychanie (rail transport: helping a train up a steep incline) · de Steilkurvenmanöver (aviation: horizontal turn) · ms pembankan (business) · ru ба́нкинг (business) · ru крен (aviation: horizontal turn) · kmr bankevanî (business)