Definitions for banks
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1. Banks, Sir Joseph Banks(noun)

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

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1. Banks

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

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1. banks

   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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1. banks

   Song lyrics by banks -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by banks on the Lyrics.com website.

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

Anagrams for banks »

1. nabks

How to pronounce banks?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Urs Rohner:

   Our oil and gas exposure is possibly a little bit bigger than other European banks, but seen in total, it is relatively small. That's not something where I believe there's a big reason to worry.

2. Tarun Kataria:

   It's massively sub-optimal for the issuer since the bankers are not sufficiently incentivised to get the best possible price execution from global investors, in addition, it reduces the banks' bargaining power in private-sector deals.

3. Barry Schwartz:

   I would not be surprised to see the Toronto market have some kind of bottom ... it certainly feels like it, and see a major move higher, but we need the banks to cooperate and the banks aren't cooperating today. That was a big shock to me, what National did, raising capital here.

4. Adam Barrass:

   We have argued for a long time that Nordic banks, Swedbank and Nordea in particular, have been the canaries in the coal mine, they have shown the path that you should follow in a negative rate environment or as net interest margins get squeezed.

5. Grovetta Gardineer:

   We expect banks to ... report suspicious activity, for instance an unusual and unexplained spike in clearing activity, that doesn't mean that there's actual money laundering, but it shows a deviation in the pattern that should be looked into.

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