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Definitions for BANKS
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Banks, Sir Joseph Banksnoun

    English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820)

ChatGPT

  1. banks

    Banks are financial institutions that are licensed to receive deposits and make loans. They also offer other financial services, including wealth management, currency exchange, and safe deposit boxes. Banks play a crucial role in the economy by facilitating transactions, safeguarding money, extending credit, and providing financial products such as certificates of deposit and savings accounts. They can be either commercial, retail, investment banks, or a combination of these, depending on their business model.

Wikidata

  1. Banks

    Banks is a town in Pike County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 179.

Editors Contribution

  1. banksnoun

    Plural noun and verb form of the word bank.

    The national banks were regulated by the government and told to ensure they had an agreed amount of capital reserves.


    Submitted by MaryC on July 7, 2016  

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. BANKS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Banks is ranked #292 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Banks surname appeared 105,833 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 36 would have the surname Banks.

    54.5% or 57,690 total occurrences were Black.
    39.2% or 41,561 total occurrences were White.
    2.9% or 3,154 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2.4% or 2,593 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.4% or 455 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.3% or 381 total occurrences were Asian.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'BANKS' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1553

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'BANKS' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3089

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of BANKS in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of BANKS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of BANKS in a Sentence

  1. Goldman Managing Director Bobby Vedral:

    On Symphony, we are already deploying it a lot internally, so are other banks, there is one big asset manager who will soon start to make it compulsory for interacting with them. It will certainly be used in a widespread way within the year.

  2. Greg Medcraft:

    We don't regulate markets like we regulate banks, it is like creating a square peg for a round hole.

  3. Le Maire:

    It is not good that banks, be them German, Italian, French or Spanish, are too exposed to the sovereign debt of their country.

  4. Marsh Harbour:

    My island of Abaco, everything is gone. No banks, no stores, no nothing.

  5. Janet Yellen:

    Global experience shows that giving central banks independenc e to make monetary policy decisions that they think are in the best interests of the country and consistent with their mandates leads to lower inflation and more stable macroeconomic outcomes.

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