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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of commercial bank1

First recorded in 1905–10
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The repo rate is the level at which the central bank lends to commercial banks, influencing borrowing costs.

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It had also cut the cash reserve ratio - or the reserves commercial banks need to maintain with the RBI - by half a percent in December.

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The rate on savings accounts offered to the average customer of Bank of America, to choose a commercial bank at random, is 0.01% a year.

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TD Bank is the tenth-largest commercial bank in the U.S., with 1,100 branches along the Eastern Seaboard from Maine to Florida.

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The tanker spilled its contents in front of a commercial bank, leading to an explosion.

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