bank failure

collocation in English

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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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failure
noun
uk
/ˈfeɪ.ljər/us
/ˈfeɪ.ljɚ/
the fact of someone or something ...
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(Definition ofbankandfailurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thebankfailurehad severe repercussions for the town.
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This was the biggestbankfailureof 2009.
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He became wealthy as a miner, lost it all in abankfailure, then became wealthy again from publishing.
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Banks refused to go to the discount window because it is usually associated with the stigma ofbankfailure.
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Abankfailureis the closing of a bank by a federal or state banking regulatory agency.
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Under ideal circumstances, abankfailurecan occur without customers losing access to their funds at any point.
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These risks, called operational risks, include the major events most likely to causebankfailure, such as massive internal fraud.
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It is said that on losing his savings in abankfailurehe concentrated on engraving in mezzotint.
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It may also have the purpose of reducing the extent of depositor losses in the event ofbankfailure.
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Haskell also initiated a law insuring deposits in case of abankfailure, a landmark piece of legislation in the nation.
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In a case of abankfailure, the state representing auditor would close the bank, sell the bonds, and use the proceeds to reimburse bondholders.
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The new legislation would give member states the power to impose losses, resulting from abankfailure, on the bondholders to minimise costs for taxpayers.
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The new legislation would give member states the power to impose losses, resulting from abankfailure, on the bondholders to minimize costs for taxpayers.
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Riverbankfailuremay be caused by house placement, water saturation, weight on the river bank, vegetation, and/or tectonic activity.
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Bankfailureas the result of tectonics may also lead to avulsion, in which a river abandons its own river channel in favor of forming a new one.
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The earthquakes caused immediatebankfailure, in which the surface banks fell above and below the water surface, causing swells large enough to sink a boat.
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Another application is to evaluate risks related to events such as communication network breakdowns or the inability of participants to send payments (e.g. in case of possiblebankfailure).
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