bank
see also PAY, MONEY
- an organization which keeps money safely for its customers: bank
- a type of bank which specializes in lending money to people who want to buy a house: building society
- a local office of a bank: branch
Where's the nearest branch of the Bank of Scotland?
- the type of business done by banks: banking (noun U)
the financial sector, including banking, insurance and investment services
- the person who is in charge of a branch of a bank: (bank) manager
- a person who works in a bank: (bank) clerk
- the person that you pay money to or get money from: cashier
- a person who owns a bank or who has an important job in a bank: banker
- the long flat surface where customers are served: counter
- a machine outside a bank where you can get money: cash dispenser, cash machine
- to keep your money in a particular bank: bank with sth
I bank with Barclays.
- the arrangement by which a bank looks after your money: (bank) account
※ keeping your money in a bank
- an account from which you can take out money at any time by using a cheque book or cheque card: current account (AmE checking account)
- an account where your money earns interest: deposit account, savings account
- an account which you share with sb else: joint account
- to start a new account with a bank: open an account
- to stop using an account: close an account
※ using a bank account
- to add money to your account: pay*/put* money in (to an account)
I paid ※£500 into my account.
- a book used for putting money into or taking money out of some kinds of account: passbook
- to take money from your account: take*/get* money out (of an account), (more formal) withdraw* money (from an account)
I'd like to withdraw ※£200, please.
- to get money from your account you write a cheque (AmE check) or use your passbook
- to get money from a cash machine you need a bank card and a secret number called a PIN number
※ more on cheques CHEQUE
- when a bank puts money into your account, it credits your account (with sth); when it takes money out, it debits your account (with sth)
They told me they had credited my account with ※£20.
- an arrangement by which a bank pays a certain amount of money regularly, for example to pay a bill: standing order
- an arrangement by which money is automatically taken out of your account in order to pay a bill: direct debit (noun C/U)
I pay my electricity bill by direct debit.
※ the amount of money in an account
- the amount of money in your account: (bank) balance
- a list showing how much you have paid into your account, how much you have taken out and how much you have left: statement
- if you still have some money in your account, you are in credit, (informal) in the black
- if you spend more money than you have in your account, you are overdrawn, (informal) in the red
- an amount of money that you spend that is more than the amount that you have in your account: overdraft
She wants to pay off her overdraft before she gets married.
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