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commercial bank

noun

  1. a bank specializing in checking accounts and short-term loans.


commercial bank

noun

  1. a bank primarily engaged in making short-term loans from funds deposited in current accounts


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Word History and Origins

Origin of commercial bank1

First recorded in 1905–10

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Example Sentences

She has run her own small businesses and previously worked at a commercial bank.

OneConnect has built a broad business in China, serving all of its major banks, 99% of its city commercial banks, and 53% of insurance companies.

The loan had less rigid underwriting standards than are common at large commercial banks, allowing it to be used to support a business that might take longer than normal to turn a profit.

Private sector creditors, including commercial banks and bondholders, are not involved and have continued to receive repayments.

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A central bank could, for instance, distribute money directly to consumers without relying on commercial banks as intermediary.

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In 2004, the five largest U.S. banks held 34 percent of all commercial bank assets; today they hold 48 percent.

Goldman Sachs is now a commercial bank, as is Morgan Stanley, which means both firms are protected by the Fed as Too Big To Fail.

Without preface he inquired the amount of his deposit subject to check in the Commercial Bank.

There would be something doing in the way of entertainment presently in the neighborhood of the musty old Commercial Bank.

This is a fine way of making the division, and very convenient certainly for the Commercial Bank.

Take this check down to the Commercial Bank, please, and open an account.

Miller was offered a situation in a branch office of the Commercial Bank, which was opened in Cromarty in 1835.

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