0 past simple and past participle of bank
1 to keep your money in a particular bank, or to put money into a bank:
2 (of an aircraft) to fly with one wing higher than the other when turning:
3 to collect in or form into a mass, or to make something do this:
It banked its success and failure on the fortunes of a few until general conditions were too difficult to ignore.
The blocks are essentially singly banked with interconnecting rooms to allow views and sun to be gained from opposite directions.
The excess quotas can then be banked for future use.
Tissue and blood will be banked from each patient who agrees to participate in this aspect of the study.
Unfortunately, the only work that is ever specified is domestic service, perhaps because in many cases employers banked their servants' wages until marriage.
Many of their families experienced financial hardship as a result of this war, and had banked on their sons and daughters earning money during the summer months.
The cheques are still bouncing, and they have never yet been banked.
They banked on that and assumed that the proposed legislation would continue to protect them in that way.
