land bank

noun

1. a banking association that engages in the financing of transactions in real property, especially in agricultural land.
2. a parcel or parcels of land or real estate held in trust, as for future development.

land bank

noun

1. a bank that issues banknotes on the security of property

Other Words From

• land banking noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of land bank¹

First recorded in 1690–1700

Example Sentences

He founded a land bank which, according to contemporaries, was fairly successful and was united with that of John Briscoe in 1696.

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These blessed effects the Land Bank was to produce simply by issuing enormous quantities of notes on landed security.

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These men affirmed that the one cure for every distemper of the State was a Land Bank.

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The sum expected from the Land Bank was near two million six hundred thousand pounds.

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The Land Bank would advance more than two millions and a half at seven per cent.

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