a business for keeping money which is paid out when its customers write checks
financial institution
Cases of word usage
1) a person who manages or owns a bank (banker)
2) the business of keeping a bank (banking)
3) a written order to a bank to pay money (cheque)
4) the careful way in which things are placed in relation to one another; a request to supply goods; a written instruction (especially to a bank or post office) to pay money, or giving authority (order)
5) an amount of money by which a bank account is overdrawn (overdraft)
6) having used, taken out, more money than one has in a bank account (overdrawn)
7) a flat case used for keeping papers, documents, drawings etc; the position and duties of a minister of state; a list of securities and investments (stocks, shares etc) owned by a person, bank etc (portfolio)
8) a wild bank of earth built to defend a fort etc (rampart)
9) to use guns etc to steal from a person, bank etc (stick-up)