Definitions for Banks
bæŋksbanks

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1. Banks, Sir Joseph Banksnoun

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

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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.

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1. Banks

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

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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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1. banks

   Song lyrics by banks -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by banks on the Lyrics.com website.

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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.

Matched Categories

1. • Botanist

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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Anagrams for Banks »

1. nabks

How to pronounce Banks?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Banks in sign language?

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. Andy Haldane:

   If global real interest rates are persistently lower, central banks may then need to think imaginatively about how to deal on a more durable basis with the technological constraint imposed by the zero lower bound on interest rates, that may require a rethink, a fairly fundamental one, of a number of current central bank practices.

2. Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda:

   If it means that central banks are directly underwriting government bonds, or managing monetary and fiscal policies as one, that would be prohibited in Japan as well as other advanced economies, as lessons from history tell us.

3. Barney FrankBut Frank:

   Confidence in America's financial system is terrific. It's partly because it's so regulated, there is confidence that banks are well capitalized because they are regularly monitored.

4. Franklin Templeton:

   If we do get a little sniff of higher yields or a wee bit of inflation or even a return to growth or even the Fed trying to get through to a second rate hike, we think the valuations (of banks) could start to reflect an improving fundamental scenario.

5. Hugh Tallents:

   I can see them getting bought out or taken private, but they wouldn't be interesting to big banks, Schwab or Morgan Stanley. A wild card could be PayPal.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Banks
2. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Banks
4. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
5. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Banks