释义 |
ˈbanking-house A house in which banking operations are carried on; a mercantile firm engaged in banking or some branch of it.
1809R. Langford Introd. Trade 129, Banking-house, a receptacle for people's money for commercial purposes. 1816Gentl. Mag. LXXXVI. i. 97 Became a partner in the banking-house of Down, Thornton, and Free. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 490 The days when there was not a single banking house in the city of London. 1879Escott England I. 233 The difference existing between the two classes of business—a banking house and a bank. |