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antibank

antibank adjective: opposing banks (financial institutions).

Adjective

antibank (comparative more antibank, superlative most antibank)

  1. Opposing banks (financial institutions).
    • Thus, although opponents of the private bank proposal accused its supporters of undermining the colony's sovereignty, the antibank cohort themselves viewed the provincial government's power as circumscribed.1998, Margaret Ellen Newell, From Dependency to Independence, page 153
    • By 1824 antibank feeling had triumphed, in that most banks in Ohio had collapsed or gone out of business during the depression[…]2000, Donald John Ratcliffe, The Politics of Long Division, page 101

Forms of antibank

comparativemore antibank
superlativemost antibank

Origin of antibank

From anti- + bank.

Questions about antibank

What does antibank mean?
Antibank means opposing banks (financial institutions).
What part of speech is antibank?
Antibank is an adjective.

Words near antibank in the dictionary

  1. antiballistic missiles
  2. antiballoon
  3. antiballooner
  4. antiballooners
  5. antiban
  6. antibank
  7. antibanking
  8. antibaptism
  9. antibarbari
  10. antibarbarus
  11. antibaryon

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