food bank

1. 1.

   a place where food is contributed and made available to those in need

   “they set up a food bank for the flood victims”

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Questions about food bank

What does food bank mean?

food bank means "a place where food is contributed and made available to those in need".

Is food bank a common word?

food bank is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.