correspondent bank

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a bank that performs services for one or more other banks.

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First recorded in 1960–65

correspondent banking, noun

One that they cannot cash in at the bank to pay for their flats.
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The correspondent does a stand-up next to a burning pile of heroin and gets a taste of its effect.
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A tugboat improbably sits high on the bank, obscured by tall grass, a broken oil rig hangs over the water nearby.
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But just up the steep river bank and through the brush is an opening.
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He was surprised that the central bank did not understand that.
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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.
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The weed growing over every water, and at the bank of the river, shall be pulled up before all grass.
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He was long a correspondent of the National Intelligencer and other papers, residing in Virginia.
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The dormant accounts most of the banks maintain with the reserve bank are, perhaps, indicative of their attitude toward it.
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