banco
Adjective
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Adjective
banco (not comparable)
- Being or relating to a type of court involving a bench of judges. Quite often, the Banco Court is an appeals court.
banco
- (attributive) A bank, especially that of Venice; formerly used to indicate bank money, as distinguished from the current money when it has become depreciated.
- banco money
- 1941, Sir John Harold Clapham, Eileen Edna Power, The Cambridge Economic History of Europe
- On account of the great confidence placed on them, payments in banco soon gained a premium on payments in current coin, so that speculation arose on the fluctuating premium.
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