commercial bank
noun
: a bank organized chiefly to handle the everyday financial transactions of businesses (as through demand deposit accounts and short-term commercial loans)
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If bond prices later drop, that could leave commercial banks with losses.
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Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Created as the lobby for the building’s original anchor tenant, commercial bank Irving Trust, the 33-foot-high-ceilinged space at the building’s northwest corner is an over-the-top dream of period pizzazz that makes Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby look like a work of sober realism.
—Ian Volner, Curbed, 24 July 2024
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Chinese commercial banks have a huge problem.
—Anniek Bao, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2025
And the United States and its allies must fully sanction all of the ten largest Russian commercial banks—including Gazprombank, which handles energy transactions for the gas monopoly Gazprom.
—Alina Polyakova, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2022
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Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Created as the lobby for the building’s original anchor tenant, commercial bank Irving Trust, the 33-foot-high-ceilinged space at the building’s northwest corner is an over-the-top dream of period pizzazz that makes Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby look like a work of sober realism.
—Ian Volner, Curbed, 24 July 2024
Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty Images
Chinese commercial banks have a huge problem.
—Anniek Bao, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2025
And the United States and its allies must fully sanction all of the ten largest Russian commercial banks—including Gazprombank, which handles energy transactions for the gas monopoly Gazprom.
—Alina Polyakova, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2022
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“Commercial bank.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commercial%20bank. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.
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