major bank

collocation in English

meaningsofmajorandbank

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major
adjective
uk
/ˈmeɪ.dʒər/us
/ˈmeɪ.dʒɚ/
more important, bigger, or more serious than others of the ...
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bank
noun[C]
uk
/bæŋk/us
/bæŋk/
an organization where people and businesses can invest or borrow money, change it to foreign money, etc., or a building where these services ...
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(Definition ofmajorandbankfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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As a result, individual investors and speculators comprised the majority of shareholders by the time that share prices began to plunge in the wake ofmajorbankfailures in 1997.
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He should have access to the conveyancing department of amajorbankif that is his wish.
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That rumour set off a whole series of market operations which nearly broke a verymajorbank.
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It would be extraordinary if amajorbankwere offering such a facility without proper security.
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The first is full access at post offices anywhere in the country lo the basic bank accounts of everymajorbankand building society.
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Fit and proper persons, banking prudence, and so on, are essential ingredients for anyone running amajorbank.
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Virtually everymajorbankreview has had articles on this subject.
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Is anyone suggesting that amajorbank, with a substantial insurance department, does not have the requisite expertise?
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The supervision of banks and the knowledge that the central bank has of itsmajorbankcustomers from dealing with them seem to me inextricably and valuably linked.
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If thatmajorbank, whose profits are in tens of millions of pounds a year, is aware that women clean its offices for 43p an hour, it should be ashamed.
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In relation to the 1929 downturn, historians emphasize structural factors likemajorbankfailures and the stock market crash.
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It worked quite well for many decades in terms of preventing amajorbankrun and systemic risk.
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Sites nearmajorbankbuildings are marked with dollar sign mosaics.
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All seem to have something to do with a plan to rob amajorbank.
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On one occasion, he was said to have lost $23,000 after amajorbankrobbery.
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The cross border money transfer facilities are limited tomajorbankin towns.
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The complications of the situation can be illustrated by the shareholding in the two major banks.
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She thought her life of luxury was near perfect until her husband was discovered to have committed a series ofmajorbankrobberies with her brother-in-law.
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The rates at which major banks lent to industrial prime borrowers are given in the table below.
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I believe that the spectacle of major banks holding on to securities stolen from the pension funds is disgraceful.
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