BANK FAILURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bank failure mean? 

• BANK FAILURE (noun)
  The noun BANK FAILURE has 1 sense:

1. the inability of a bank to meet its credit obligations

  Familiarity information: BANK FAILURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BANK FAILURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The inability of a bank to meet its credit obligations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("bank failure" is a kind of...):

failure (lack of success)