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Definitions for banks
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Banks, Sir Joseph Banksnoun

    English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820)

ChatGPT

  1. banks

    Banks are financial institutions that are licensed to receive deposits and make loans. They also offer other financial services, including wealth management, currency exchange, and safe deposit boxes. Banks play a crucial role in the economy by facilitating transactions, safeguarding money, extending credit, and providing financial products such as certificates of deposit and savings accounts. They can be either commercial, retail, investment banks, or a combination of these, depending on their business model.

Wikidata

  1. Banks

    Banks is a town in Pike County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 179.

Editors Contribution

  1. banksnoun

    Plural noun and verb form of the word bank.

    The national banks were regulated by the government and told to ensure they had an agreed amount of capital reserves.


    Submitted by MaryC on July 7, 2016  

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. BANKS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Banks is ranked #292 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Banks surname appeared 105,833 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 36 would have the surname Banks.

    54.5% or 57,690 total occurrences were Black.
    39.2% or 41,561 total occurrences were White.
    2.9% or 3,154 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2.4% or 2,593 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.4% or 455 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.3% or 381 total occurrences were Asian.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'banks' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1553

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'banks' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3089

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of banks in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of banks in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of banks in a Sentence

  1. John Doyle:

    The banks are not going to tell us too much, they wouldn’t like to destabilize confidence in their institution.

  2. Andrew Tuch:

    If upheld, there is significantly greater risk for investment banks to be held liable in M&A deals.

  3. Bill Clinton:

    It's not the big banks that need relief from Washington. It's small banks and small businesses.

  4. Ingo Speich:

    When we talk to companies it is pretty difficult to convince them to give cash back to shareholders, banks are reluctant to give them liquidity and we have a pretty volatile market environment, with Greece and the European Central Bank (buying bonds) and so on...They want to be defensive.

  5. Philippe Gijsels:

    The signal that the Bank of Japan gives reminds us that central banks will continue to play their role of fighting deflation, these actions typically drive up risky assets.

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