commercial bank

1. 1.

   a financial institution that accepts demand deposits and makes loans and provides other services for the public

   Synonymsfull service bank

   Broaderdepository financial institution

   Narrowernational bank

Questions about commercial bank

What does commercial bank mean?

commercial bank means "a financial institution that accepts demand deposits and makes loans and provides other services for the public".

What is another word for commercial bank?

Close synonyms include full service bank. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is commercial bank a common word?

commercial bank is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.