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# bank

«bank» in Mova's school dictionary: **a place that keeps money safe and lends it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (bank, banks); verb (bank, banks, banked, banking)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A bank is a place that keeps money safe and lends it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bank/#m1)

2) A piggy bank (money box) is a small box for saving coins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bank/#m2)

3) The bank of a river is the land along its side. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bank/#m3)

4) A bank is a store of things kept to use later, like a food bank or a blood bank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bank/#m4)

5) To bank on something is to count on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bank/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

where money is saved or taken out; savings add, withdrawals take away; in geography, river banks; phrases «piggy bank», «bank account», «food bank», «river bank», «bank on»

### examples

- She has 40 dollars in the bank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bank/#x1)
- He puts 5 dollars in his piggy bank each week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bank/#x2)
- The bank pays 2 dollars of interest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bank/#x3)
- They sat on the river bank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bank/#x4)
- Dad opened a bank account for me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bank/#x5)
- We gave cans to the food bank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bank/#x6)
- The river burst its banks after the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bank/#x7)
- You can bank on Grandma to bake on Sundays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bank/#x8)
- A bank of clouds covered the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bank/#x9)
- She saved coins in her money box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bank/#x10)
- There on the bank she wept and wailed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bank/#x11)

### note

Putting money in adds; taking it out subtracts; interest is extra money the bank pays. Trap: «river bank» is a place, not money.

### In the corpora

- [Payday is the day pay arrives in the bank, often once a month, so money is usually lowest just before it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/6/)
- [Some families rent their home from a landlord; others are buying it with a huge loan from a bank called a mortgage.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills/2/)
- [Most grown-ups keep their money in a bank account, and most of it is never seen as notes and coins.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/0/)
- [Banks pay interest on savings, and they charge interest when you borrow.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/4/)
- [An overdraft lets you spend below zero, which is borrowing, and banks charge high interest on it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bank» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bank/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.