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
The best way to stop a bank run, it turns out, is to insure deposits.
The Resolution of the Cyprus Banking Collapse Paves the Way for More Crises | Robert Shapiro | April 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWould a bank run spread across europe as depositors in the periphery started to seek safer havens?
European Finance Ministers Talk Tough About Bank Bailouts. Does It Matter? | Megan McArdle | March 26, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe next question is whether this triggers a bank run, with foreign deposits fleeing the country.
The minute you undermine the insurance, or dilute it, a bank run might ensue.
Deposit insurance is the one way we know to stop a bank run.
After Cyprus Bank Bailout, Depositors Race to Withdraw Their Cash. Is the Rest of Europe Next? | Megan McArdle | March 17, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
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. CobbWhat 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. HillThe 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
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