bank building
2
2.1
- noun
- /bæŋk ˈbɪldɪŋ/
:
edificio bancario
- The embassy had been a former bank building, with a heavy safe-type front door and barred windows.
- an old bank building
- a former bank building
- a downtown bank building
Examples
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She conducted her business transactions inside the bank building on Main Street.
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Three blocks away, in the top half of an old bank building, he could see an office suite filled with lights.
Fiction book (1997) -
There are no bank buildings on the beach.
Fiction book (1993) -
Suspects are leaving the bank building.
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Andy had gone into an office on the new bank building's second floor.
Fiction book (1993) -
He opened his office in a bank building.
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There I stopped, stunned: the old bank building was gone!
Academic text (2008) -
The electronic sign on the bank building said 7:03 and eight degrees.
Fiction book (1995) -
He's in a bank building downtown, a firm with six lawyers in modern offices.
Fiction book (1995) -
His suite of offices took the top three floors of an old bank building not far from the courthouse.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
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1.0
A place where people keep and borrow money
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a building where banking transactions are conducted' is directly derivable from combining 'bank' (financial institution) and 'building' (physical edifice). This straightforward noun–noun compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows normal English semantics, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Bank building comes from a simple image: a bank, meaning a place for money and 'banking', inside a building with counters and a safe where people go to do banking. So, bank building means the actual building where bank work is done.