bad bank

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noun

a financial institution set up to hold and manage underperforming assets owned by other banks

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How to use bad bank in a sentence

We need to recover and grow the idea that the proper answer to bad speech is more and better speech.
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I gotta say—I think this past year was pretty bad for music.
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Ass-kicking, bad guy-killing Carter is just a future spinster.
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They all immediately dashed out to their car to catch the bad guys.
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Terrorism is bad news anywhere, but especially rough on Odessa, where the city motto seems to be “make love, not war.”
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In sorting notes it is necessary to be able readily to distinguish between notes of this bank and notes of other reserve banks.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
Thus far Boston banks have received more benefits from this bank than have the other banks in this district.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
The weed growing over every water, and at the bank of the river, shall be pulled up before all grass.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
The dormant accounts most of the banks maintain with the reserve bank are, perhaps, indicative of their attitude toward it.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
At the reserve bank they may borrow as a standing right and not as a favor which may be cut off.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips