Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun banking

2 senses of banking

Sense 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)

Sense 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)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb bank

8 senses of bank

Sense 1
bank -- (tip laterally; "the pilot had to bank the aircraft")
       => tip -- (cause to tilt; "tip the screen upward")

Sense 2
bank -- (enclose with a bank; "bank roads")
       => enclose, close in, inclose, shut in -- (surround completely; "Darkness enclosed him"; "They closed in the porch with a fence")

Sense 3
bank -- (do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank; "Where do you bank in this town?")
       => transact -- (conduct business; "transact with foreign governments")

Sense 4
bank -- (act as the banker in a game or in gambling)
       => act -- (discharge one's duties; "She acts as the chair"; "In what capacity are you acting?")

Sense 5
bank -- (be in the banking business)
       => work, do work -- (be employed; "Is your husband working again?"; "My wife never worked"; "Do you want to work after the age of 60?"; "She never did any work because she inherited a lot of money"; "She works as a waitress to put herself through college")

Sense 6
deposit, bank -- (put into a bank account; "She deposits her paycheck every month")
       => give -- (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody; "I gave her my money"; "can you give me lessons?"; "She gave the children lots of love and tender loving care")

Sense 7
bank -- (cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning; "bank a fire")
       => cover -- (provide with a covering or cause to be covered; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers")

Sense 8
trust, swear, rely, bank -- (have confidence or faith in; "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes")
       => believe -- (accept as true; take to be true; "I believed his report"; "We didn't believe his stories from the War"; "She believes in spirits")

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