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ˈland-ˌbank
A banking institution which issues notes on the security of landed property.
1696(title) Remarks on the proceedings of the Commissioners for putting in Execution the Act past last Session for establishing a Land-Bank. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. 45 In Egypt, the generation or tribe, being once set apart as sacred, wou'd..be able..to establish themselves a plentiful and growing fund, or religious land-bank. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 416 To establish a current circulating credit upon any Land-bank..has hitherto proved difficult. 1900Pilot 19 May 351/1 A gentleman energetic in promoting the spread of landbanks (perhaps the best of several good things which Mr. Plunkett has introduced in Ireland). |