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land-bank

land-bank is the alternative form of landbank.

Meaning of landbank

Noun

landbank (plural landbanks)

  1. A bank which issues notes based on the security of landed property.
    • To establish a current circulating credit upon any Land-bank […] has hitherto proved difficult.1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, page 340
  2. An area of land held in reserve (by a house-building firm or investment firm) for future development, redevelopment, or sale.

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Forms of land-bank

pluralland-banks

Questions about land-bank

What is land-bank the alternative form of?
Land-bank is the alternative form of landbank.

Words near land-bank in the dictionary

  1. Land's End
  2. land's sake
  3. land's sake alive
  4. land's sakes
  5. land's sakes alive
  6. land-bank
  7. land-banks
  8. land-beaver
  9. land-beavers
  10. land-diving
  11. land-farer

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