green bank

[ green bangk ]

noun

1. a public, semipublic, or nonprofit financing organization that is dedicated to investing in projects intended to help the environment, such as renewable energy or carbon reduction.

Word History and Origins

Origin of green bank¹

First recorded in 1990–95, for an earlier sense; 2005–10, for the current sense

Example Sentences

Leverage public dollars with private investment through a Green Bank to promote energy-efficiency and renewables.

From The Daily Beast

It was so fine and warm that the next day they carried Hulda to a green bank where she could sit down.

From Project Gutenberg

Is that little turfed slope the huge and perilous green bank down which I counted it a feat, and the gardener a sin, to run?

From Project Gutenberg

Into the deep-worn pass I have mentioned runs a rivulet, which, sparkling on the green bank, had made for itself a little basin.

From Project Gutenberg

"There is the spring," he said, pointing to a green bank out of which bubbled the cool current.

From Project Gutenberg

Siegfried thereupon penetrates into the cave and returns with the hoard; then he throws himself once more upon the green bank.

From Project Gutenberg