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time bank

time bank noun: a system for reciprocal volunteering that uses time as the unit of currency.

Noun

time bank (plural time banks)

  1. A system for reciprocal volunteering that uses time as the unit of currency.
    • Thanks to the Time Bank launched there in 2000, patients can now be prescribed if appropriate - not just with the usual pharmacological armoury - but with a friendly visit once a week, or a lift to the shops, or small repairs at home.2000, Edgar S. Cahn, No More Throw-away People, →ISBN, page 215
  2. (Canada) A system in which an employer keeps track of overtime hours that can later be redeemed as either money or as time off with pay.
    • In British Columbia, where an employee requests it in writing, and employer may establish a time bank for the employee and credit overtime wages to the time bank instead of paying them to the employee.2005, Theo Anne Opie, HR for Controllers
  3. A player's allotment of additional time in online poker games.

Forms of time bank

pluraltime banks
alternative formtimebank

Questions about time bank

What does time bank mean?
Time bank means a system for reciprocal volunteering that uses time as the unit of currency.
What part of speech is time bank?
Time bank is a noun.
What is the plural of time bank?
The plural of time bank is time banks.

Words near time bank in the dictionary

  1. time back
  2. time ball
  3. time balls
  4. time bandit
  5. time bandits
  6. time bank
  7. time banking
  8. time banks
  9. time bargain
  10. time bargains
  11. time barrier

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