bank
- IPA[baŋk]
英式
- a financial establishment that uses money deposited by customers for investment, pays it out when required, makes loans at interest, and exchanges currency；the store of money or tokens held by the banker in some gambling or board games.
- deposit (money or valuables) in a bank；have an account at a particular bank
verb: bank, 3rd person present: banks, gerund or present participle: banking, past tense: banked, past participle: banked
noun: bank, plural noun: banks
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- 片語
名詞
- 1. a financial establishment that uses money deposited by customers for investment, pays it out when required, makes loans at interest, and exchanges currency a bank account 同義詞
- ▪ the store of money or tokens held by the banker in some gambling or board games.
- ▪ the person holding the bank in some gambling or board games; the banker.
- ▪ US informal a large amount of money those entrepreneurs are raking in some serious bank the estate makes bank off the sale of merchandise
- 2. a stock of something available for use when required a blood bank Britain has a bank of highly exportable skills 同義詞
- ▪ a site or receptacle where something may be deposited for recycling a paper bank
動詞
- 1. deposit (money or valuables) in a bank she may have banked a cheque in the wrong account 同義詞
- ▪ have an account at a particular bank the family has banked with Coutts for generations I’ve banked at the same bank for nearly 50 years
- ▪ informal win or earn (a sum of money) he banked £100,000 for a hole-in-one
- 2. store (something, especially blood, tissue, or sperm) for future use the sperm is banked or held in storage for the following spring
