…a financial establishment that uses money deposited by customers for investment, pays it out when required, makes loans at interest, and exchanges currency…
…the store of money or tokens held by the banker in some gambling or board games…
…a common reddish-brown Eurasian vole that lives in woodland and scrub…
…a large area of land held by a public or private organization for future development or disposal…
…a district of the city of Paris, situated on the left bank of the River Seine, to the south of the river. It is an area noted for its intellectual and artistic life…
…(in South Asia) a group of people who can be relied upon to vote together in support of the same party…
…a region west of the River Jordan and north-west of the Dead Sea; population 2,461,300 (est. 2009). It contains Jericho, Hebron, Nablus, Bethlehem, and other settlements. It became part of Jordan in 1948 and was occupied by Israel following the Six Day War of 1967. In 1993 an agreement was signed which granted limited autonomy to the Palestinians, who comprise 97 per cent of its inhabitants; withdrawal of Israeli troops began in 1994 but conflict in the area continues…
…a place where supplies of blood or plasma for transfusion are stored…
…a place where used glass bottles may be deposited for recycling…
…a submerged sandbank in the North Sea, about 115 km (70 miles) off the NE coast of England. This part of the central North Sea is covered by the shipping forecast area Dogger…
…a district of the city of Paris, situated on the right bank of the River Seine, to the north of the river. The area contains the Champs-Élysées and the Louvre…
…the area adjacent to the southern bank of the River Thames in London, especially the cultural complex located between Westminster and Blackfriars Bridges…
…a place where semen is kept in cold storage for use in artificial insemination…
…an international banking organization established to control the distribution of economic aid between member nations, and to make loans to them in times of financial crisis…
…a financial institution which is insolvent but which continues to operate through government support…
…an arrangement made with a bank whereby one may deposit and withdraw money and in some cases be paid interest…
…interest computed on the face value of a loan and deducted in advance from the loan by the lending bank…
…a day on which banks are officially closed, kept as a public holiday…
…a national bank that provides financial and banking services for its country’s government and commercial banking system, as well as implementing the government’s monetary policy and issuing currency…
…underwater rise in the Atlantic Ocean, between Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, site of important US and Canadian fishing zones…
…the site in Cheshire of one of the world’s largest radio telescopes, with a fully steerable dish 76 m (250 ft) in diameter…
…(in the US) a regional bank operating under and implementing the policies of the Federal Reserve…
…a non-profit-making financial institution receiving small deposits at interest…
…a printed record of the balance in a bank account and the amounts that have been paid into it and withdrawn from it, issued periodically to the holder of the account…
…a bank that offers services to the general public and to companies…
…a commercial bank that derives funds from and lends to the community where it operates, and is not affiliated with a multibank holding company…
…a bank that purchases large holdings of newly issued shares and resells them to investors…
…(in gambling) win more money than is held by the bank…
