banking

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbæŋkɪŋ/
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Noun

banking (countable and uncountable, plural bankings)

The business of managing a bank.
The occupation of managing or working in a bank.
- 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
  Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
(aviation) A horizontal turn.
A mechanical component to prevent vibration in a timepiece, etc.
- 1825, Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain), Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce
  The balances of all moveable time-keepers, the chronometer excepted, are prevented from vibrating beyond the proper arc by what is called bankings. The inferior escapements are very easily banked; a pin fixed in the balance, coming in contact with one or two studs, is sufficient for that purpose. […]
(rail transport) The practice of assisting a train up a steep incline (called a bank) with another locomotive at the rear.
- 1944 January and February, W. McGowan Gradon, “Forres as a Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 23:
  On the Dava line, apart from the banking assistance given by the 4-4-0s, the traffic is handled by the standard class "5" 4-6-0s, known among the drivers as "Hikers"; these engines are shedded at Inverness and Perth.

Synonyms

bankerage (obsolete)

Derived terms

banking engine
banking game
banking house
banking pin
commercial banking
e-banking
fractional reserve banking
i-banking
Internet banking
investment banking
online banking
open banking
phone banking
retail banking
shadow banking
shadow banking system
time banking
universal banking

Translations

business

Chinese:
Mandarin: 銀行業／银行业 (zh) (yínhángyè)
Finnish: pankkitoiminta (fi)
German: Banking n
Hindi: महाजनी (hi) f (mahājnī)
Japanese: 銀行業務 (ぎんこうぎょうむ, ginkō gyōmu), 銀行業 (ぎんこうぎょう, ginkōgyō), バンキング (bankingu)
Korean: 뱅킹 (baengking), 은행업무 (eunhaeng'eommu)
Malay: pembankan
Polish: bankowość (pl) f
Russian: ба́нковское де́ло n (bánkovskoje délo), ба́нкинг (ru) m (bánking)

occupation

Finnish: pankkiala
Japanese: バンキング (bankingu)
Korean: 뱅킹 (baengking)
Polish: bankowość (pl) f
Russian: ба́нковское де́ло n (bánkovskoje délo), ба́нкинг (ru) m (bánking)
Spanish: banca (es) f

aviation: horizontal turn

Finnish: kaarros
Russian: вира́ж (ru) m (viráž), крен (ru) m (kren)

mechanical component to prevent vibration

aviation: helping a train up a steep incline

Russian: подта́лкивание (ru) n (podtálkivanije)

Verb

banking

present participle of bank

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English banking.

Noun

banking n (uncountable)

banking

Declension

declension of banking (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) banking	bankingul
genitive/dative	(unui) banking	bankingului
vocative	bankingule