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BANKING INDUSTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does banking industry mean? 

BANKING INDUSTRY (noun)
  The noun BANKING INDUSTRY has 1 sense:

1. banks collectivelyplay

  Familiarity information: BANKING INDUSTRY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BANKING INDUSTRY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Banks collectively

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

banking industry; banking system

Hypernyms ("banking industry" is a kind of...):

industry (the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise)

Meronyms (members of "banking industry"):

bank; banking company; banking concern; depository financial institution (a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "banking industry"):

Farm Credit System; FCS (a cooperative nationwide system of banks and associations providing credit to farmers and related businesses; originally capitalized by the federal government but now owned by its members and borrowers)

hawala (an underground banking system based on trust whereby money can be made available internationally without actually moving it or leaving a record of the transaction)


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