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Meaning “bench” or “long seat,” this native term was entirely devoid of any association with Roman coins or Italian mounds of real or theoretical silver and gold.xix Quite unlike the “workbench” that Mediterranean bankers adapted from Germanic languages to describe work surfaces for their money-changing operations, the Old English benc had potent Germanic associations.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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And while banca at first referred strictly to the old money-changing workbench, it soon came to refer to something else: the place where money or valuables were “mounded,” “piled,” “raised up,” or simply “banked.”
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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There, the banca operated as a mobile office, offering money-changing and coin-weighing services.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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There, the banca operated as a mobile office, offering money-changing and coin-weighing services.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Meaning “bench” or “long seat,” this native term was entirely devoid of any association with Roman coins or Italian mounds of real or theoretical silver and gold.xix Quite unlike the “workbench” that Mediterranean bankers adapted from Germanic languages to describe work surfaces for their money-changing operations, the Old English benc had potent Germanic associations.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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And while banca at first referred strictly to the old money-changing workbench, it soon came to refer to something else: the place where money or valuables were “mounded,” “piled,” “raised up,” or simply “banked.”
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The group historically relied on donations through a pipeline of couriers and money-changing operations.
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The group historically relied on donations through a pipeline of couriers and money-changing operations.
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No amount of "wow, it's really cool SCIENCE!" will ever make it okay, whether you're working at TMI or a chemical plant in Bhopal or some crooked money-changing firm near the golden bull temple on Wall Street.
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Siegmund Warburg 1902-1982 was born into a wealthy family that could trace its heritage to the money-changing and banking businesses of the 1640s.
Reading 'High Financier' getAbstract 2011
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