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banking on

banking on is the present participle and gerund of bank on.

Meaning of bank on

Verb

bank on (third-person singular simple present banks on, present participle banking on, simple past and past participle banked on)

  1. To rely on someone or something; to count on something; to depend on something.
    • I'm banking on you being there. I don't have your expertise.

Questions about banking on

What is banking on the present participle and gerund of?
Banking on is the present participle and gerund of bank on.

Words near banking on in the dictionary

  1. banking
  2. banking engine
  3. banking engines
  4. banking game
  5. banking games
  6. banking on
  7. banking pin
  8. banking pins
  9. banking up
  10. bankings
  11. bankiva

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Adapted from Wiktionary: banking on (page history and authors); bank on (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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