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National bank   /nˈæʃənəl bæŋk/   Listen
National bank

noun
1.
A commercial bank chartered by the federal government.






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"National bank" Quotes from Famous Books



... anti-bank speech which General Jackson used to say had convinced him of the impolicy of a national bank, and which, with ingenious malice, he covertly quoted in making up his Bank ...
— Famous Americans of Recent Times • James Parton

... satisfied, and within thirty minutes he had called up three different members of the Traders' Board of Directors. At three-thirty there was a hastily convened board meeting, with some stormy scenes, and late in the afternoon a national bank examiner was in possession of the books. The bank had not opened for business ...
— The Circular Staircase • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... name of the President of Switzerland and how he keeps it out of the papers so successfully. One day we lugged an encyclopedia and the Statesman's Year Book out to the Square with us and sat down on a bench facing the consulate and read up about the Swiss cabinet and the national bank of Switzerland and her child labor problems. Accidentally we discovered the name of the Swiss President, but as he has kept it so dark we are not going to give away ...
— Mince Pie • Christopher Darlington Morley

... you see, a new one, issued by the First National Bank of Chambersburgh. That is the bank ...
— The Young Bridge-Tender - or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle • Arthur M. Winfield

... as good, the promise of it. I called up Mr. Chase, of the Clayton National Bank, and he has agreed to take the railroad securities I offered him as collateral, and let me have sixty thousand dollars on them! That will give us cash enough to weather the storm. Hurrah! We're all right now. ...
— Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout - or, The Speediest Car on the Road • Victor Appleton


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