banking
Noun
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Noun
banking
- The business of managing a bank.
- The occupation of managing or working in a bank.
- (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. […]
- 1825, Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain), Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce
- (rail) The practice of assisting a train up a steep incline (called a bank) with another locomotive at the rear.
- bankerage (obsolete)
- Spanish: banca
- present participle of bank#English|bank
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