merchant bank

1. 1.

   a credit card processing bank; merchants receive credit for credit card receipts less a processing fee

   Synonymsacquirer

   Broaderdepository financial institution

Questions about merchant bank

What does merchant bank mean?

merchant bank means "a credit card processing bank; merchants receive credit for credit card receipts less a processing fee".

What is another word for merchant bank?

Close synonyms include acquirer. 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 merchant bank a common word?

merchant 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.