banking (countable anduncountable,pluralbankings)
- Thebusiness of managing abank.
- Theoccupation of managing or working in a bank.
2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8847:Think ofbanking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
- (finance)Investment banking.
She became an analyst inbanking after graduation, choosing that career path over sales and trading.
- (aviation) Ahorizontal turn.
- Amechanicalcomponent to preventvibration in atimepiece, etc.
1825, “Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce”, inRoyal Society of Arts, Great Britain:The balances of all moveable time-keepers, the chronometer excepted, are prevented from vibrating beyond the proper arc by what is calledbankings. The inferior escapements are very easily banked; a pin fixed in the balance, coming in contact with one or two studs, is sufficient for that purpose.[…]
- (rail transport) The practice of assisting atrain up a steep incline (called abank) with another locomotive at the rear.
1944 January and February, W. McGowan Gradon, “Forres as a Railway Centre”, inRailway Magazine, page23:On the Dava line, apart from thebanking assistance given by the 4-4-0s, the traffic is handled by the standard class "5" 4-6-0s, known among the drivers as "Hikers"; these engines are shedded at Inverness and Perth.
aviation: horizontal turn
mechanical component to prevent vibration
rail transport: helping a train up a steep incline
banking
- presentparticiple andgerund ofbank
FromEnglishbanking.
banking
- toperform amotorcycle cornering
banking
- the act ofmotorcycle cornering
Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishbanking.
banking n (uncountable)
- banking
