I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bank debt (= one that you owe to a bank )
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The company closed with bank debts of about £350 million.
a bank loan (= money lent by a bank )
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What is the interest you will pay on a bank loan?
a bank of fog ( also a fog bank ) (= a large mass of fog )
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As we approached the coast, we ran into a dense bank of fog.
a bank/cheque card British English (= one that you must show when you write a cheque )
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Always keep your cheque book and cheque card separately.
a bank/mass of cloud (= a large block of cloud )
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A heavy bank of cloud was creeping across the sky.
a commercial bank (= one that accepts people’s money, provides loans etc )
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Several large commercial banks cut their lending rates.
a data base/data bank (= a large amount of data stored in a computer system )
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We can compare insurance prices from different companies on the database.
a steep bank
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He scrambled down the steep bank.
bank account
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I’d like to open a bank account .
bank balance
bank card
bank charges (= fees charged by a bank for some services )
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You will have to pay bank charges if your account is overdrawn.
bank draft
bank holiday weekend (= a weekend on which there is a bank holiday on Friday or Monday )
bank holiday
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Next Monday is a bank holiday.
bank manager
bank rate
bank robberies
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Police are investigating a series of bank robberies in South Wales.
bank statement
bank/sales/project etc manager
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She’s now assistant marketing manager for the south east area.
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one of our regional managers
blood bank
bottle bank
central bank
clearing bank
data bank
electronic banking
food bank
high street banks/shops/stores etc
Internet banking
Internet shopping/banking
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The new regulations will increase customer confidence in Internet shopping.
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Internet banking saves customers a lot of time.
investment bank
memory bank
merchant bank
online banking
open a bank account
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I’d like to open a bank account .
savings bank
sperm bank
telephone banking
the banks of a river (= the land near a river )
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He bought a house on the banks of the River Wye.
the economic/banking system
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There are fears that the whole banking system could collapse.
the financial/banking sector (= the part of the economy to do with money and finance )
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The UK financial sector is looking healthier than ever.
the river bank
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Crowds lined the river banks to watch the boat race.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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But while it happens, the big banks will be taking the strain of the smaller ones.
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The big bank holding company said the thrift, based in Las Vegas, has $ 1. 8 billion in assets.
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Here they all were - business, commerce, the big banks .
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We saw the big white bird bank over the town, and then land at the new military airfield.
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While big and small banks are both pushing up rates, they are doing so for different reasons.
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For the 11 big money-centre banks whose statistics Salomon Brothers records, return on assets fell in 1990 to about 0.3%.
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London has traditionally preferred a free-wheeling culture with minimal bossing by government, big banks or regulators.
central
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The most effective proven mechanism to achieve price stability is an independent central bank dedicated to that objective.
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Requiring a central bank to support a flagging currency will remain a bad idea after the union is formed, Tietmeyer said.
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Readers should ascertain how their own central bank defines money supply.
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Generally, politicians believe that central bank officials are too stingy with the money supply and too concerned about inflation.
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Government intervention, usually involving the direct buying or selling of domestic and foreign currencies by central banks .
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The central bank is scheduled to release the figure this week.
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Just how closely a central bank works with the government will vary from country to country.
commercial
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The setting up of an Assets Management Corporation to consolidate bad debts transferred from commercial banks would only prop up the rich.
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Nearly all large commercial banks now offer highly sophisticated cash management systems for their commercial accounts.
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Thanks to the new rules, commercial banks will soon be able to compete with the merchant banks on the same terms.
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Even small firms that bank with small commercial banks can use such systems through established arrangements among the banks.
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In modern times, commercial banks are still able to create money, but only in the form of bank deposits.
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Cicero Bank is a New Yorkchartered commercial bank with total assets of $ 26 million and total deposits of $ 21 million.
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Moreover commercial banks today mainly lend to well-heeled borrowers in their own countries.
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The three main sources of short-term financing are trade credit, short-term commercial bank loans, and commercial paper.
foreign
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The reader should ascertain the degree of foreign bank involvement in his own country.
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Whether the foreign banks were more user-friendly than we, I do not know.
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The import element of such schemes can be financed by foreign currency bank loans.
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What services are performed by foreign banks in London? 7.
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In 1990 the exchange had 59 members, including 13 foreign banks .
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Its membership embraces foreign banks and investment houses.
large
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He cites a very senior management accounting role in a large international bank , requiring exceptional management accounting experience.
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He found places where the waves bounced off the boundary and then returned to the surface near a large bank of seismographs.
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Danske Bank became the largest bank in the Nordic region, with Unibank slightly smaller in terms of overall capital assets.
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Successful though holidays may be they would not take place without a large bank balance.
major
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He has organised a meeting between the regional directors of the major clearing banks and the Federation's North-East members.
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Shares of banks with operations in northern Florida rose after several major banks reported strong fourth-quarter profits.
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Your family now control Duncan Pharsee Schiller, one of the city's major merchant banks .
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Earnings at some major regional banks suffered from higher-than-expected provisions for problem loans.
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Lesser banks will expect to pay slightly more for funds than the major retail banks.
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The average of interbank offered rates for dollar deposits in the London market based on quotations at five major banks .
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Give a brief account of the main services provided by major banks . 8.
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To try to alleviate that, the United Kibbutz Movement began negotiating with the major banks to reduce the debt.
■ NOUN
account
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Who is to say what part of the loving relationship was generated by the bank account ?
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Growing familiarity with technology to access bank accounts and to handle financial affairs is boosting interest.
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Hidden charges on bank accounts are not helpful to anyone trying to see what is happening to their money.
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His campaign bank account is full.
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She also wanted to retain her own surname, separate bank accounts and tax returns.
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We've got a joint bank account , but I don't use it.
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So far $ 200m has been found in foreign bank accounts .
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Is it simply a transfer from the customer's bank account to building society account of money that was lying idle?
balance
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Your bank balance might be given a pleasant surprise.
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Until Helen discovered what appeared to be a mistake in their bank balance , that is.
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The clever ones soon discovered that while banknotes could be seized a bank balance could not.
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Certain things, such as electric charge, bank balances , or dates are quantified by numbers of this kind.
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It's the psychological equivalent of having a flashy red sports car plus the bank balance and looks to match.
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The bank balance assured him of continued calm.
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He had a bank balance that a senior merchant banker would not be ashamed of.
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Citicorp first installed ATMs to serve customers with low bank balances .
clearing
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He has organised a meeting between the regional directors of the major clearing banks and the Federation's North-East members.
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This would then stimulate other institutions to change their rates too, in order for them to remain competitive with the clearing banks .
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There is nothing to stop you doing most of your business with your main clearing bank if the rates are competitive.
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We believe we have more experience in helping franchisees and franchisors than any other clearing bank .
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These factors, he argues, created a situation where many clearing banks were well placed to expand.
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According to analysts at Lehman Brothers, the nine main clearing banks combined have averaged annual ROEs of less than 7% since 1988.
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In particular, the clearing banks ceased to tie their deposit and lending rates to it.
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The clearing banks were ideally placed.
deposit
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Customers of other banks will have more securities, fewer bank deposits and their banks will have fewer operational balances.
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Singh said the defendants used phony checks prepared by Young to make bank deposits , pay debts and make purchases.
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Building society and bank deposit investors could hardly say the same.
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Lower interest rates also make the rate of return on bonds more attractive than bank deposits and new bond issues.
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But these bank deposits are being held as a form of instant security against sudden withdrawals.
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Lower rates hurt a currency by making bank deposits denominated in it less attractive.
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The seller has given up goods in exchange for an increase in his bank deposit .
holiday
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Available on Saturdays, Sundays and bank holidays , the concession is available on most InterCity trains in and out of London.
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Even 50 different speed limits, bank holidays , fireworks laws are defensible.
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A business day means any weekday other than Christmas Day, Good Friday or any bank holiday .
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For example, Monday clinics are prone to develop a backlog owing to bank holidays and statutory holidays.
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The museum is open every day except winter bank holidays - afternoons only during weekends.
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The rest of the bank holiday weekend passed slowly.
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But that remains an annual event, with the sixth one coming up this August bank holiday .
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Tea allowances, bank holiday allowances, large town allowances are all being threatened by management.
investment
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But this year nine of the top investment banks have been plotting ways to beat the tax increases.
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There was something fishy about the way supply met demand in an investment bank .
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The first is deciding what kind of investment bank it ought to be.
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The investment bank is unlikely to be able to squeeze monopoly rent from a relationship.
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Anne Heche plays Alex, a beautiful woman who works in a disreputable investment bank .
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Drexel's collapse is especially painful for those junk-bond issuers which had counted on the investment bank to restructure their debt.
loan
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Palm-greasing for just about anything from entry to a favoured school to obtaining a bank loan has been considered a fact of life.
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They could move, but that would mean taking out a bank loan .
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Men tend to use bank credit cards, bank loans or overdrafts more than women do.
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The two couples then applied for a bank loan to help finance construction of a six-bedroom oceanfront mansion.
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The last-mentioned might involve share issues or further bank loans .
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And those with bank accounts are more likely than others - though not exclusively - to get bank loans .
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Although bank loans are a vitally important source of finance, this is not to the complete exclusion of equity issues.
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But clearly very many more potential users think that bank loans would be difficult.
manager
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It throws into doubt the claim that the call was intercepted by a retired bank manager in Oxfordshire.Ian Maclaren reports.
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At every turn they are faced by the bank manager and bankruptcy.
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Hence the meeting with her bank manager earlier this afternoon!
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Any sensitive bank manager must have the same feeling.
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Does anyone else have this problem with their bank manager ?
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The Department certainly gave Tom McCormack a send off he won't forget - and neither will his bank manager !!
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He has a co-operative bank manager and managed to buy second hand machinery.
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The profits grew and the bank manager began to smile at Carrie whenever she paid in the weekly takings.
memory
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We boiled your memory banks down into two categories - the rest we threw away, sorry to say.
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They functioned as the living and growing memory banks for the entire corporation.
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In a matter of seconds, his fingerprints had been photographed and checked by computer against the central memory banks .
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The three memory banks represent the red, green and blue components of the image seen on the television monitor.
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Eight bit-planes per memory bank allows 256 levels of the associated primary colour to be represented.
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Earlier than that still, and his memory banks were empty.
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The digital images held in the memory banks are converted to television signals which are displayed on the monitor.
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What implants a salad in the memory banks is the salad dressing.
merchant
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Five months ago, 32-year-old Richard Simpson was a corporate financier with merchant bank Morgan Grenfell.
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Others are employed in merchant banks advising pension funds.
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Former business analyst at a merchant bank .
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The merchant bank Morgan Grenfell slipped 7p to 399p and Burmah, the oil group, 9p to 637p.
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Guinness Mahon, the merchant bank , rose 1.5p to 147p.
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Some accountants have attacked the merchant banks for their inflated self-image and snobbery.
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The Founders had to agree everything to do with the paper, including the appointment of the sponsoring merchant bank .
note
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If you can't get the money, you fake the bank note .
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I took a;, bank note from my pocket and paid the waitress.
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This financial surplus will be in the form of increased holdings of bank notes , bank deposits and shares, etc.
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He would hand her a sheaf of uncounted bank notes , which she received without a word of thanks.
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Then there's at least two huge halls full of nothing but bank notes .
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Inconvertibility is generally regarded as the final stage in the development of the bank note or paper money.
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Limit for cash or bank notes £250.
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Inside were a couple of building-society account books and a few bank notes .
river
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One hot day I remember leaving guns and clothes along the river bank and swimming without a stitch on.
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The move follows reports that a new mechanised suction dredge is breaking up river banks , blocking rivers and killing fish.
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For example, mink have been radio-tracked along river banks inside major cities.
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It will include development of canal and river banks and extensive landscaping.
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Others die from collisions with vessels travelling up and down the river , and from explosions carried out during river bank construction.
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The path from Billy's cottage wound down towards the river bank .
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I returned to my men and told them to unload under some fig trees on the steep river bank .
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The river banks were frequently lined with curious onlookers who struggle to eke out an existence in this harsh environment.
robbery
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One major bank robbery had just come to trial.
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In 1979, President Carter commuted her seven-year sentence for bank robbery and use of a firearm in commission of a felony.
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He lent the group's activists a flat, and laundered the proceeds of their bank robberies .
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Stedeford, 27, was convicted in November of a bank robbery charge in Iowa and will be sentenced next month.
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Three people have been arrested after Britain's first alleged attempted online bank robbery was thwarted.
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Since then, both men have been sentenced to long prison terms for attempted bank robbery in Los Angeles.
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The jury earlier acquitted the three of two bank robberies in London, in which the families of managers were also terrorised.
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Williams had received the George Medal for saving three young children who were taken hostage during a bank robbery .
statement
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She ran a sticky finger down the monthly balance-sheet, then checked the figures against the handwritten bank statement .
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Two weeks ago, Leavey glanced at the bank statements NationsBank was sending to Dena.
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After the couple's death police discovered bank statements which showed they paid the builders £23,000 for it.
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On your bank statement , it will show up as $ 47, 395.
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And don't forget: keep a record of your order, so you can balance it against your bank statement .
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Sands opened the bank statement first.
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Tax inspectors should be empowered to examine a man's bank statement as well as his credit-card dealings.
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However bank statements and a mortgage statement will be required.
street
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But the new decade also promises to revolutionise high street bank branches yet again.
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Cashed his cheque at the High Street bank .
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Career development loans are also available from high street banks .
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Even the lower rate makes the offerings from other high street banks look miserly.
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Representatives from the world of high finance included chartered accountants and members of the major high street banks .
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Many new lenders have entered the fray - High Street banks , foreign banks, specialist lenders and insurance companies.
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The Midland's financial weakness became a source of worry to the other high street banks .
■ VERB
break
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Middleton had denied breaking into the bank on 6 December last year while acting with others, with intent to steal.
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Should Johnson return to the Dolphins, he will break the bank .
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Shakespeare market a very good one through tackle dealers at a price that will not break the bank .
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Don't worry about breaking the bank either.
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The move follows reports that a new mechanised suction dredge is breaking up river banks , blocking rivers and killing fish.
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Last year, Courtney broke the bank with seven out of eight predictions panning out.
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I had no choice under the circumstances, and the fees won't exactly break the bank .
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I would like to gather everyone somewhere warm and appealing to all ages and not break the bank in doing so.
hold
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Most beginners apply the opposite rudder too harshly and this makes it difficult to hold the bank constant.
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I thought of the Saturday afternoon outings when we had held bonfires on the banks and the kids had gone skating.
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Market loans reduce the volume of idle cash held by banks .
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The trio play bored pensioners who decide to hold up a bank .&038;.
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They attend different churches and are said to hold separate bank accounts.
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The central bank is most concerned to limit inflation because inflation depreciates the value of the assets held by the commercial banks.
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It found that 42 accounts held at 23 banks in Britain had a turnover of £870m between 1996 and 2000.
pay
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Your pension can then normally be paid into a bank in the United Kingdom or to some one else authorised by you.
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Congress also has shifted from direct loans to loan guarantees: promises to pay back private bank loans if the borrowers default.
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Will the profits of the business be enough to pay back bank borrowing?
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August paid off the bank , then never set foot in New Albion or Lake Wobegon again.
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The client director had to pay the bank £10,000.
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But he paid for phone banks , mailings, transportation and registration fees for his straw poll supporters.
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Most major banks have fraud departments to deal with the problem ... but its the customer who ends up paying .
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The miners then sell the gold at prevailing rates, and use the future output to pay back the central banks .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a run on the bank
be laughing all the way to the bank
break the bank
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At under £14,500 it won't break the bank either.
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Attractive bathrooms need not break the bank.
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Don't worry about breaking the bank either.
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I had no choice under the circumstances, and the fees won't exactly break the bank.
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I would like to gather everyone somewhere warm and appealing to all ages and not break the bank in doing so.
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Last year, Courtney broke the bank with seven out of eight predictions panning out.
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Shakespeare market a very good one through tackle dealers at a price that will not break the bank.
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Should Johnson return to the Dolphins, he will break the bank.
burst its banks
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Denied its usual egress, the river had burst its banks and was pouring down the fire-ravaged streets.
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Residents were evacuated from the town as the waters rose and the Ouse threatened to burst its banks.
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The River Deben had burst its banks and people's homes were getting flooded.
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The River Frome had burst its banks after torrential rain and the Rovers' ground was absolutely waterlogged.
offshore banks/companies/investments etc
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A review of offshore banks was also started and was expected to lead to several banks losing their licences to operate.
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All plans are offered with guaranteed clean title in offshore companies.
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For a good ways more, Collymore sailed onward to the offshore banks and then anchored.
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The table below shows the best deals currently available from offshore banks and building societies.
the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Boy, you must have all kinds of bank after payday, huh?
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Fans who couldn't get into the stadium watched the match on banks of TV monitors outside.
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He was drunk and drove into a snow bank .
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I'll stop at the bank on the way home.
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Portland is a sprawling city on the banks of the Willamette River.
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The bill would force banks to lower credit card interest rates.
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the grassy banks of the river
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The scientists sit behind banks of computers, giving instructions to the crew of the spaceship.
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The sun was setting behind the opposite bank .
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They were building a new theatre on the south bank of the Thames.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A minority-owned bank had agreed to the arrangements and several nonprofit housing sponsors were lined up to participate in the program.
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Four big banks cut their prime lending rate by half a point to 9.5%.
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One hour and 12K later I had deposited a couple of pounds into my bank account.
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Parks and playgrounds that are perfect for picnicking include the Esplanade, which runs along the banks of the Charles River.
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The bank reported fourth-quarter results that were in line with estimates, even though net income rose only 1 percent.
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The banks, in turn, claimed that their hands were tied by federal regulators who discouraged them from lending.
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The money supply is unchanged and banks still have the original deposit.
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The pre-tax figure was above City expectations and gave evidence that the bank is finally coming to grips with its bad-debt problem.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
issue
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There was heavy buying in major blue-chip stocks, including pharmaceuticals and banking issues .
online
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Next month the Halifax launches its new online and telephone bank Intelligent Finance.
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Cahoot's new interest range outstrips its online banking rival, Intelligent Finance, the Halifax's Internet bank.
rate
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Overnight, state banks drastically raised interest rates , and people flocked to deposit their hoarded cash.
river
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It was this provision the Salt River tribe was banking on to force Symington to finally sign a compact with the tribe.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a run on the bank
banking/drug/health etc czar
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Barry R.. McCaffrey, White House drug czar .
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Our drug czar watches in impotence as shooting wars between drug gangs erupt in city after city.
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Similarly, when Dole asserts that Clinton reduced the office of drug czar by 83 percent, he is on solid ground.
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Standouts include Douglas's anti-drugs czar whose daughter is a crackhead.
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When drug traffic escalates, they appoint a national drug czar .
offshore banks/companies/investments etc
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A review of offshore banks was also started and was expected to lead to several banks losing their licences to operate.
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All plans are offered with guaranteed clean title in offshore companies.
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For a good ways more, Collymore sailed onward to the offshore banks and then anchored.
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The table below shows the best deals currently available from offshore banks and building societies.
the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Bank the hot coals on a grill.
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Dozens of candles were banked before the altar.
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She's managed to bank more than $300,000.
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The bobsled run has banked curves about a mile long.
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The enemy fighter banked left, then right.