Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - bank

I. [c red]FINANCE AND STORAGE (banks, banking, banked) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. A bank is an institution where people or businesses can keep their money. Which bank offers you the service that best suits your financial needs?... I had ?10,000 in the bank. N-COUNT 2. A bank is a building where a bank offers its services. N-COUNT 3. If you bank money, you pay it into a bank. Once you have registered your particulars with an agency and it has banked your cheque, the process begins. VERB: V n 4. If you bank with a particular bank, you have an account with that bank. My husband has banked with the Co-op since before the war. VERB: V with n 5. You use bank to refer to a store of something. For example, a blood bank is a store of blood that is kept ready for use. ...Britain’s National Police Computer, one of the largest data banks in the world. N-COUNT: with supp, usu n N II. [c red]AREAS AND MASSES (banks) 1. The banks of a river, canal, or lake are the raised areas of ground along its edge. ...30 miles of new developments along both banks of the Thames. ...an old warehouse on the banks of a canal. = side N-COUNT: usu N of n 2. A bank of ground is a raised area of it with a flat top and one or two sloping sides. ...resting indolently upon a grassy bank. N-COUNT 3. A bank of something is a long high mass of it. On their journey south they hit a bank of fog off the north-east coast of Scotland. N-COUNT: N of n 4. A bank of things, especially machines, switches, or dials, is a row of them, or a series of rows. The typical laborer now sits in front of a bank of dials. N-COUNT 5. see also banked III. [c red]OTHER VERB USES (banks, banking, banked) When an aircraft banks, one of its wings rises higher than the other, usually when it is changing direction. A plane took off and banked above the highway in front of him. VERB: V