BANKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does banking mean? 

• BANKING (noun)
  The noun BANKING has 2 senses:

1. engaging in the business of keeping money for savings and checking accounts or for exchange or for issuing loans and credit etc.

2. transacting business with a bank; depositing or withdrawing funds or requesting a loan etc.

  Familiarity information: BANKING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BANKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Engaging in the business of keeping money for savings and checking accounts or for exchange or for issuing loans and credit etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("banking" is a kind of...):

finance (the management of money and credit and banking and investments)

Domain member category:

right of offset ((banking) the legal right of a bank to seize deposited funds to cover a loan that is in default)

Derivation:

bank (be in the banking business)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Transacting business with a bank; depositing or withdrawing funds or requesting a loan etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("banking" is a kind of...):

finance (the commercial activity of providing funds and capital)

Domain member category:

no-good; rubber (returned for lack of funds)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "banking"):

home banking (banking in which transactions are conducted by means of electronic communication (via telephone or computer))

Derivation:

bank (put into a bank account)

bank (do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank)

 Context examples 

“And you’ll probably find that your creditors will impound the banking account of Mr. Cornelius,” said Holmes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As Armitage it was that I entered a London banking house, and as Armitage I was convicted of breaking my country’s laws, and was sentenced to transportation.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"He's a favorite of Mr. Butler's. Mr. Butler says he is safe and honest—calls him the Rock, Peter, and says that upon him any banking institution can well be built."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A formal relationship established to provide for regular banking and business services.

(Financial Account, NCI Thesaurus)

The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City of London.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had used eight shells for lighting fires before I hit upon the device of banking the embers with wet moss, and there remained not over a hundred shells in the box.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Examples of fertility preservation procedures include sperm banking, egg freezing, in vitro fertilization with embryo freezing, and certain types of surgery for cervical and ovarian cancer.

(Fertility preservation, NCI Dictionary)

I should have thought that some respectable banking firm—

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He seemed thoroughly to understand, and went on to ask if there would be any practical difficulty in having one man to attend, say, to banking, and another to look after shipping, in case local help were needed in a place far from the home of the banking solicitor.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

First, she lost in the mining way, and then she lost in the diving way—fishing up treasure, or some such Tom Tiddler nonsense, explained my aunt, rubbing her nose; and then she lost in the mining way again, and, last of all, to set the thing entirely to rights, she lost in the banking way.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)