state bank

1. 1.

   a bank chartered by a state rather than by the federal government

   Broaderdepository financial institution

Questions about state bank

What does state bank mean?

state bank means "a bank chartered by a state rather than by the federal government".

Is state bank a common word?

state 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.