COMMERCIAL BANK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does commercial bank mean? 

• COMMERCIAL BANK (noun)
  The noun COMMERCIAL BANK has 1 sense:

1. a financial institution that accepts demand deposits and makes loans and provides other services for the public

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMERCIAL BANK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A financial institution that accepts demand deposits and makes loans and provides other services for the public

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

commercial bank; full service bank

Hypernyms ("commercial bank" is a kind of...):

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 "commercial bank"):

national bank (a commercial bank chartered by the federal government)