Bank

Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.[…]Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.

Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.

Military dude was working for a drug dealer, right? and making good bank with it—he was making good money.

blood bank; data bank; sperm bank

If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank.

He banked with Barclays.

the sort of face you would happily bank with

I’m going to bank the money.

Johnny banked some coke for me.

They proposed an ambitious plan to bank people in remote rural communities.

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Tiber trembled underneath her banks.

On the opposite bank of the river other Chinese units attacked Taoshih and Yunmeng north-west of Hankow.

Just upstream of Dryburgh Abbey, a reproduction of a classical Greek temple stands at the top of a wooded hillock on the river’s north bank.

the banks of Newfoundland

This is the hardest duty on the railway, for the trains are heavy and there are some long 1 in 40 banks.

It's just as quick out of the blocks. The five-car unit has three engines, giving it 2,820hp to play with, so the once-'feared' Devon banks of Hemerdon, Rattery and Dainton are child's play to these trains.

The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.

Ores are brought to bank.

to bank sand

[…] clouds banking above the gravel road, their flat slate-blue bottoms threatening freezing rain or an early snowfall.

Aristoma∣chus would haue them to be stript from their leaues in winter, & in any hand to be banked well about, that the water stand not there in any hollow furrow or hole lower than the other ground

Have I not heard these islanders shout out / Vive le roi! as I have banked their towns?

Some interesting facts have recently been made known by the L.N.E.R. concerning the 178-ton Garratt 2-8-0 + 0-8-2 engine No. 2395, which since construction in 1925 has spent the whole of its working life banking coal trains up the 3 miles of 1 in 40 between Wentworth junction and West Silkstone, on the Worsborough branch, near Barnsley.

[...] the 4-4-0 unhappily stalled after a stop on Reading Old Bank with its eight-coach load and the Reading Up Line pilot, a "Hall", had to bank the train into Reading General.

Soon after leaving Bebra the line rises, mostly at 1 in 74, for 7 miles to Cornberg and all trains of over 400 tons are banked.

a bank of switches

a bank of pay phones

Wanderers were finally woken from their slumber when Kevin Davies brought a fine save out of Brad Guzan while, minutes after the restart, Klasnic was blocked out by a bank of Villa defenders.

Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojans sweep / Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.

Anybody familiar with the London Underground network will know that Bank Tube station is a place to be avoided - if at all possible - on a weekday morning. Located at the very heart of London's 'Square Mile' financial district, some 70,000 people detrain there during the morning peak, to pass through its gatelines and those at the adjoining station at Monument. A further 50,000 passengers squeeze into the station complex at exactly the same time of day, in order to change between the five lines that pass through it.