BANK OF ENGLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bank of England mean? 

• BANK OF ENGLAND (noun)
  The noun BANK OF ENGLAND has 1 sense:

1. the central bank of England and Wales

  Familiarity information: BANK OF ENGLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BANK OF ENGLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The central bank of England and Wales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Bank of England" is a kind of...):

central bank (a government monetary authority that issues currency and regulates the supply of credit and holds the reserves of other banks and sells new issues of securities for the government)

 Context examples 

There were twenty fifty-pound notes of the Bank of England, held together by an india-rubber band—nothing else.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“A fraud on the Bank of England?” I asked.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

After some search, it was found in the box, at the bottom of a horse's nose-bag; wherein (besides hay) there was discovered an old gold watch, with chain and seals, which Mr. Barkis had worn on his wedding-day, and which had never been seen before or since; a silver tobacco-stopper, in the form of a leg; an imitation lemon, full of minute cups and saucers, which I have some idea Mr. Barkis must have purchased to present to me when I was a child, and afterwards found himself unable to part with; eighty-seven guineas and a half, in guineas and half-guineas; two hundred and ten pounds, in perfectly clean Bank notes; certain receipts for Bank of England stock; an old horseshoe, a bad shilling, a piece of camphor, and an oyster-shell.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)