Phrase Hound found 83 phrases and 79 compound words that contain banks. The most common are listed below. Open banks in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 83
- commercial banksplural of commercial bank: A bank whose chief business is accepting demand deposits and making short-term loans.
- down the banksA severe criticism, scolding, reprimand, or punishment.
- central banksplural of central bank: The principal monetary authority of a polity or monetary union, which normally implements monetary objectives by controlling interest rates, issuing currency, managing the national debt, overseeing banking and …
- investment banksplural of investment bank: A financial institution that deals with raising capital, trading in securities and managing corporate mergers and acquisitions.
- Briana Banks
- Taiwan BanksA shallow part of the main continental shelf off East Asia lying to the south and south west of the Pescadores (Penghu Islands).
- run on the banksAlternative form of bank run: An event where many depositors of one or more banks withdraw money from their bank accounts within a short time, causing the banks concerned to become unstable.
- Banks CountyOne of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Homer.
- Banks IslandAn island of the Arctic Archipelago, separated from Victoria Island to its east by the Prince of Wales Strait and from the mainland by Amundsen Gulf to its south.
- Banks IslandsA group of islands to the north of Vanuatu.
- Grand BanksA marine region and underwater plateau of relatively shallow seabed in the northwest Atlantic Ocean, located southeast of Newfoundland, which has long served as a major fishing ground.
- banks of issueplural of bank of issue: A bank which issues its own notes payable to bearer.
- Lovely BanksA suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia
- Outer BanksA long string of narrow barrier islands and spits off the coast of North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, on the east coast of the United States.
- bad banksplural of bad bank: A bank created to specialize in the ownership of defaulted loans and their collection.
- Banks' brownA species of satyrine butterfly, Heteronympha banksii, of eastern Australia.
- blood banksplural of blood bank: A place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored for use in transfusions.
- eye banksplural of eye bank: A reserve store of human corneas kept for treatment of the blind.
- food banksplural of food bank: A charitable nonprofit organization that distributes mostly donated food to a wide variety of agencies to those who have difficulty purchasing enough to avoid hunger.
- gene banksplural of gene bank: A repository for genetic material
- load banksplural of load bank: A piece of electrical test equipment used to simulate an electrical load, to test an electric power source without connecting it to its normal operating load.
- merchant banksplural of merchant bank: A bank which provides financial services for businesses.
- power banksplural of power bank: A portable and chargeable battery device used to charge mobile phones and tablet computers.
- private banksplural of private bank: A bank involved in private banking
- reserve banksplural of reserve bank: A central bank.
Compound words 79
- BankstownA suburb of Sydney in the City of Canterbury-Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia. It was a city (local government area) until 2016.
- BankstonA surname.
- riverbanksplural of riverbank: A sloped side of a river acting as a barrier between the water and level ground to either side.
- databanksplural of databank: A database (collection of organized information in a regular structure).
- sandbanksplural of sandbank: A ridge of sand along a shore that is partially or totally submerged and thus a hazard to shipping.
- seedbanksplural of seedbank: A place used for storage of seeds as a source for planting in case seed reserves or biodiversity elsewhere are destroyed.
- streambanksplural of streambank: The bank of a stream.
- MarchbanksA surname.
- BanksianOf or pertaining to Joseph Banks, English botanist and naturalist.
- genebanksplural of genebank: A repository for genetic material