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So long as men have confidence in a bank, they will prefer checks and bank notes to the less convenient coin, unless they need coin for some special purpose If properly managed a bank is a profitable business for everyone concerned.

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  1. noun A piled-up mass, as of snow or clouds. See Synonyms at heap.
  2. noun A steep natural incline.
  3. noun An artificial embankment.
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  1. Middle English, of Scandinavian origin.
  2. Middle English banke, from French banque, from Old Italian banca, bench, moneychanger's table, from Old High German banc.
  3. Middle English, bench, from Old French banc, from Late Latin bancus, of Germanic origin.

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  1. from Middle English bank, banc, banke, also bonk, bonc, bonke, from Anglo-Saxon *banca (found only once, in a gloss, in comp. hō-banca, a couch, literally ‘heel-bench’: see hock), the Middle English being perhaps from the cognate Icelandic *banki, assimilated bakki, a bank (of a river, of a chasm, of clouds, etc.), ridge or eminence, = Swedish backe = Danish bakke, a hill, hillock, rising ground, eminence; with weak suffix, cognate with Anglo-Saxon benc, etc., English bench, with orig. strong suffix: see bench. Some senses of bank are due to the F. banc, a bench, etc., from Teutonic; so the distinct bank, ult. a doublet of bench.
  2. from bank, n.
  3. Early modern English also banke, banque, from late Middle English banke, from French banque, from Italian banca (= French banche = Provencal Spanish Portuguese banca, from Middle Latin banca, feminine), a bench, especially (in Italian and thence in other languages) a money-changer's bench or table, later a bank; cf. Italian Spanish Portuguese banco = Provencal F. banc, from Middle Latin bancus, masculine, a bank, bench, from Middle High German banc, German bank = English bank, a bench: see bank.
 

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