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bank·ing

(băng′kĭng)

1. The business of a bank.

2. The occupation of a banker.

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banking

(ˈbæŋkɪŋ)

(Banking & Finance) the business engaged in by a bank

banking

(ˈbæŋkɪŋ)

1. (Physical Geography) an embankment of a river

2. (Civil Engineering) another word for bank²⁷

3. (Fishing) fishing on a sea bank, esp off the coast of Newfoundland

4. (Aeronautics) the manoeuvre causing an aircraft to bank

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

bank•ing

(ˈbæŋ kɪŋ)

n.

the business carried on by or with a bank.

[1725–35]

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Noun	1.	banking - engaging in the business of keeping money for savings and checking accounts or for exchange or for issuing loans and credit etc. finance - the management of money and credit and banking and investments right of offset - (banking) the legal right of a bank to seize deposited funds to cover a loan that is in default
	2.	banking - transacting business with a bank; depositing or withdrawing funds or requesting a loan etc. finance - the commercial activity of providing funds and capital home banking - banking in which transactions are conducted by means of electronic communication (via telephone or computer)

Translations

Bankwesen

banca

attivit... bancaria bancario

banking

¹ [ˈbæŋkɪŋ] N [of earth] → terraplén m, rampas fpl

banking

² [ˈbæŋkɪŋ]

A. N (Comm, Fin) → banca f

B. CPD → bancario
banking account N → cuenta f bancaria
banking hours NPL → horas fpl bancarias
banking house N → casa f de banca

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

banking

[ˈbæŋkɪŋ]

(= business) → opérations fpl bancaires

(= profession) → profession f de banquier
a career in banking → une carrière dans la banque

modif [sector, industry, business] → bancaire; [system, service] → bancaire
banking hours → heures fpl d'ouverture des banquesbank loan n → prêt m bancairebank manager n → directeur/trice m/f d'agence (bancaire)
my bank manager → mon gestionnaire de compte

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

banking

banking hours

pl → Schalterstunden pl

banking house

n → Bankhaus nt

banking operation, banking transaction

n → Bankgeschäft nt

banking

(on road, racetrack) → Überhöhung f

(Aviat) → Kurvenflug m

banking

n → Bankwesen nt; the world of banking → die Bankwelt; he wants to go into banking → er will ins Bankfach or Bankgewerbe gehen attr → Bank-; the banking business → das Bankgeschäft; the banking side of the business → die Bankangelegenheiten der Firma

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

banking

[ˈbæŋkɪŋ] n → attività bancaria
to study banking → fare studi bancari or di tecnica bancaria

References in classic literature ?

Micawber's manners peculiarly qualify him for the Banking business.

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He was a banker, and his object as such was to intercept and appropriate the immense saving which the banking system effects, and so, as far as possible, to leave the rest of the world working just as hard as before banking was introduced.

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One subject which they liked to talk about, and tell me that they had mastered, in arithmetic, was "banking and discount," but I soon found out that neither they nor almost any one in the neighbourhood in which they had lived had ever had a bank account.

I had to summon a good deal of courage to take a student who had been studying cube root and "banking and discount," and explain to him that the wisest thing for him to do first was thoroughly master the multiplication table.

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"You have your banking account, and your banker," he went on.

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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.

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"What will Mademoiselle Piombo say to that?" asked a young girl of Mademoiselle Matilde Roguin, the lively oracle of the banking group.

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The windows were never opened except to air the room for a few minutes in the morning, and it had a stuffy smell which seemed to Philip to have a mysterious connection with banking.

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Daylight knew also his history, the prime old American stock from which he had descended, his own war record, the John Dowsett before him who had been one of the banking buttresses of the Cause of the Union, the Commodore Dowsett of the War of 1812 the General Dowsett of Revolutionary fame, and that first far Dowsett, owner of lands and slaves in early New England.

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It was an ordinary morocco affair, similar to those issued by American banking houses to enclose letters of credit.

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Tulliver's banking book less pleasant reading than a man might desire toward Christmas.

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I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street."