bank run


The concerted action of depositors who try to withdraw their money from a bank because they fear that the bank will fail.

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How to use bank run in a sentence

  • Her arrival there created a measure of popular tumult only to be equalled by a bank run or a fire alarm.

    Local Color | Irvin S. Cobb
  • What risk does the bank run if it allows him to have possession of the bill of lading indorsed in blank?

    Commercial Law | Samuel Williston, Richard D. Currier, and Richard W. Hill
  • The colony coins its own money and possesses a bank run by the boys themselves, where the colonists can deposit their savings.

    Criminal Man | Gina Lombroso-Ferrero