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debank

verb
/di(ː)ˈbæŋk/

Etymology

From de- + bank, partly (sense 1) by analogy with deplatform.

  1. derived from *bʰeg-✻
  2. derived from *bankiz✻
  3. derived from *banki✻
  4. derived from bank
  5. derived from banca
  6. derived from banque
  7. inherited from banke
  8. prefixed as debank — “de + bank”

Definitions

  1. To deprive a person or organization of banking services, especially for political reasons.

    • Ms Juric said as well as debanking her business, banks had also debanked her personal accounts and the accounts of people she was related to or lived with.

  2. To cease or cause to stop operating as a bank.

    • Oil Company of Texas [was] a company with which the Board had been feuding for two years over its efforts to “debank” its subsidiary bank by purporting to abandon demand deposit-taking.
    • After some years in which ING Group received dispensation from the US government it will now start to ‘debank’ (giving back its banking licence) its business in the US.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA