NATIONAL BANK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does national bank mean? 

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

1. a commercial bank chartered by the federal government

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATIONAL BANK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A commercial bank chartered by the federal government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

commercial bank; full service bank (a financial institution that accepts demand deposits and makes loans and provides other services for the public)

Holonyms ("national bank" is a member of...):

Fed; Federal Reserve; Federal Reserve System; FRS (the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state-chartered commercial banks and some trust companies)