Definitions for land-bank

land-bank land bank

Land-Bank is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 122 anagrams from letters in land-bank (-aabdklnn).

Definitions for 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.

Origin of land-bank

First recorded in 1690-1700

Examples for land-bank

The sum expected from the land bank was near two million six hundred thousand pounds.

This is not to be confused with the real credit granted by a land bank, where the value of the estate alone is considered.

He found the land bank interest predominant in the house, and the treasury empty.

Public credit had been deeply injured by the failure of the land bank.

These men affirmed that the one cure for every distemper of the State was a land bank.

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

The land bank would advance more than two millions and a half at seven per cent.

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

The remaining four thousand the artist will receive from the land bank when in the spring I mortgage the estate to a bank.

Word Value for land-bank
Scrable

5

Words with friends

7

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