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noun (1)

Definition of banknext
1
as in cluster
a number of things considered as a unit a bank of telephones set up for the telethon

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2
as in rank
a series of people or things arranged side by side a bank of elevators

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bank

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noun (2)

ˈbaŋk How to pronounce bank (audio)
as in mound
a pile or ridge of granular matter (as sand or snow) a bank of dirt that the construction workers left behind

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bank

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verb

1
as in to hill
to form into a pile or ridge of earth banked sand into little mounds on the beach

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2
as in to deposit
to put in an account she always banks half of her paycheck

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Recent Examples of bank
Noun
Banks that limit their sourcing to other banks are competing for a shrinking pool of people who already think the way the industry has always thought. — Paul Davis, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026 The Dakota and Ojibwe language archive that leaders feared was lost in a Minneapolis fire survived, and it is being moved to the basement vault of an old bank building. — Eric Henderson, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
Verb
As The Athletic previously reported, both fighters can expect to bank about $200m (£151m). — Tom Burrows, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2026 The Wildcats thumped Colorado last Saturday in their final game at the makeshift facility, banked along Lake Michigan, that has served as the team’s temporary home for the last two years. — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 25 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bank
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bank
  1. cluster
  2. rank
  3. mound
  4. hill
  5. deposit
  6. batch
  7. row
  8. drift
Noun
  • Now, after the top 25 are picked, conversations can be had about whether the committee wants to re-rank any cluster of teams next to each other.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2026
  • North Indiana Avenue Apartments A cluster of apartment buildings that face each other in the 100 block of North Indiana Avenue show the growth of multifamily housing along major corridors in northeast Kansas City in the earlier 1900s.
    — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of cluster
Noun
  • Teams carry over 50 players, and only two or three from most teams will advance to the professional ranks.
    — David Troy OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The president has essentially purged the House GOP ranks of those perceived to be disloyal.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of rank
Noun
  • So, Ohtani kept trying to work his way back to the mound for weeks after receiving a lubricating Orthovisc injection in his knee at the beginning of the All-Star break.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
  • He was fired up walking off the mound in the sixth after fanning Petey Halpin swinging at a 3-2 changeup.
    — Rob Maaddi, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of mound
Verb
  • Leave a few inches at the top of the container to hill the crop later.
    — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Some members say conversations are still ongoing about redistricting in Indiana, though Thursday’s vote makes that hill a steeper climb for Republicans with a candidate deadline in February fast-approaching.
    — Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 13 Dec. 2025
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Verb
  • Terrence split almost immediately, and Julianne deposited her small son on the Missouri farm of her Uncle Claude, a stoic, kindly old man.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 20 Oct. 2026
  • One is a cryptominer, which uses the device to mine cryptocurrency and deposit it into a wallet controlled by the attacker.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of deposit
Noun
  • But last year, during Black Friday, Hello82 put up the first batch of tickets for the festival, promising K-pop acts and events, sans any artists officially attached or a specific date.
    — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Advertisement There are only two of them at home, so a big batch can mean eating the same dinner several nights running.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of batch
Noun
  • The 31st edition drew its biggest audiences since 2015 while the row over ‘The Assassin(s)’ and Majid Majidi’s war speech put politics center stage.
    — Ophélie Surcouf, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Ohtani didn’t rule anything out in his postgame scrum, several rows deep, in front of his locker after the Dodgers’ 6-4 defeat in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of row
Noun
  • Continuous anomaly detection can also catch budget drift immediately—rather than at month-end—improving our overall operational efficiency.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
  • If the draft resolution is adopted in October, keeping track of the differences between these time scales, especially the drift between UTC and UT1, would become a more important part of high-precision timekeeping.
    — Vahe Peroomian, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026
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