Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A banking association which issues its notes for use as money in exchange for mortgages on land.

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Examples

  • Once the debt of 17.5 billion rupees is repaid, (through 10 billion rupees from the equity-linked infusion and eight billion rupees from the land-bank monetization), it would reduce our debt ratio to 0.7 is to one, and about a six times EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax and amortization) multiple.

    Leelaventure Says No to Equity in Hotels Shruti Chakraborty 2011

  • "If you apply to bring CNH in, you need to show the use and source of the proceeds, and it is understood that regulators don't want CNH to be used to fund land-bank acquisitions."

    Behind the Yuan Bond Boom: Dollars Peter Stein 2011

  • Bank of Ireland's Mr. Boucher said at least €12.2 billion of land-bank and commercial-property development loans will be covered under NAMA, but added it isn't clear whether all those loans will be transferred or managed by NAMA.

    Bank of Ireland's Net Profit Slumps 2009

  • Among them, most attention was devoted to the NWF's recommendations to buy out the rebuilding rights of those properties most at risk and to land-bank them in conservation easements so as to expand wetlands that absorb the brunt of flooding water.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Beach Blogger 2005

  • Among them, most attention was devoted to the NWF's recommendations to buy out the rebuilding rights of those properties most at risk and to land-bank them in conservation easements so as to expand wetlands that absorb the brunt of flooding water.

    FEMA's Flood Insurance Beach Blogger 2005

  • This brought forth: A second letter to --, merchant in London, concerning a late combination in the province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England to impose or force a private currency called land-bank money.

    Currency and Banking in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay [excerpts] 1901

  • [204] Dr. Douglass attacked the bank in a pamphlet bearing the following title: A letter to -- merchant in London, concerning the late combination in the province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England to impose or force a private currency called land-bank money.

    Currency and Banking in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay [excerpts] 1901

  • You mean that you want to buy the land through the land-bank.

    Redemption and two other plays Leo Tolstoy 1869

  • You mean that you want to buy the land through the land-bank.

    Fruits of Culture Leo Tolstoy 1869

  • Savoy, to establish his land-bank in that country.

    Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851

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