bank run

1. The concerted action of depositors who try to withdraw their money from a bank because they fear that the bank will fail.

Example Sentences

The best way to stop a bank run, it turns out, is to insure deposits.

From The Daily Beast

Would a bank run spread across europe as depositors in the periphery started to seek safer havens?

From The Daily Beast

The next question is whether this triggers a bank run, with foreign deposits fleeing the country.

From The Daily Beast

The minute you undermine the insurance, or dilute it, a bank run might ensue.

From The Daily Beast

Deposit insurance is the one way we know to stop a bank run.

From The Daily Beast

Her arrival there created a measure of popular tumult only to be equalled by a bank run or a fire alarm.

From Project Gutenberg

What risk does the bank run if it allows him to have possession of the bill of lading indorsed in blank?

From Project Gutenberg

The colony coins its own money and possesses a bank run by the boys themselves, where the colonists can deposit their savings.

From Project Gutenberg