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say it: BANG-king
banking is a noun meaning "engaging in the business of keeping money for savings and checking accounts or for exchange or for issuing loans and credit etc.". It is pronounced /ˈbæŋkɪŋ/ — BANG-king. It carries 2 recorded senses.
engaging in the business of keeping money for savings and checking accounts or for exchange or for issuing loans and credit etc.
transacting business with a bank; depositing or withdrawing funds or requesting a loan etc.
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for banking come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.