(banking) A cheque which is payable by a bank itself, as opposed to an ordinary cheque payable only out of the funds of a particular customer's account. A bank cheque is normally obtained by a bank customer (by paying its face value), the point is that the person receiving the cheque has the security of knowing it's payable by the bank and thus cannot bounce (not so long as the bank is solvent).

Any of a network of banks that have a formal arrangement for the exchange of cheques, drafts, etc.

Alternative letter-case form of bank holiday

(chiefly UK, Ireland) A weekday, often a Monday, on which most businesses are closed, and granted to workers as a national holiday.

A wall of clouds, rising above horizon or observed from a distance, but not overhead.

(idiomatic) An event where patrons are enticed to buy entry tickets into some venue, for example a movie theater, with the anticipation that they will be entered into a drawing to win an amount of money if their ticket is drawn and they are on-site at the time of the winning.

plural of bank vole

A species of vole, Myodes glareolus, former genus names Chletrionomys and Evotomys.

(medicine) a place where human blood or blood plasma is typed and stored for use in transfusions / (medicine) the range of such blood products stored

A bank which provides financial services for businesses.