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bankless

bankless adjective: without a bank.

Adjective

bankless (not comparable)

  1. Without a bank.
    • Since no other bank had a branch in the county, two other banks had set up tables on East Main Street to entice the newly bankless — one by means of little stuffed ducks, the other with tricolor highlighters emblazoned with the bank logo.2009 March 28, Shaila Dewan, “A Small Town Loses a Pillar: Its Only Bank”, in New York Times

Origin of bankless

From bank + -less.

Words formed from bankless

Questions about bankless

What does bankless mean?
Bankless means without a bank.
What part of speech is bankless?
Bankless is an adjective.

Words near bankless in the dictionary

  1. banking up
  2. bankings
  3. bankiva
  4. bankivas
  5. Bankland
  6. bankless
  7. banklessness
  8. banklet
  9. banklets
  10. banklike
  11. bankline

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