banked

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of bank.

   He banked his earnings at the end of each month.

   Once she had banked the prize money, she paid off her loans.

   Note

   One spelling carries every sense of the verb, from money to flight: she banked her wages, the pilot banked into the turn. It serves the simple past on its own and, after have or be, the perfect and passive (had banked, was banked). Only context tells the senses apart. A slang prison sense, hiding something in the body, means a few contexts call for care.

2. 2
   adjective

   Of a check, having been deposited into a bank account.

   The banked check cleared after three business days.

   She kept a record of every banked payment in her ledger.

3. 3
   adjective

   Piled up high into a heap or mass.

   Banked snowdrifts blocked the mountain pass for days.

   Workers cleared the banked rubble from the collapsed wall.

   Similarheaped, piled

4. 4
   adjective

   Of a person or household, having access to and use of a bank or banking services.

   Fully banked families relied far less on payday lenders.

   The program aimed to make low-income communities banked within a decade.

   Oppositeunbanked

   Note

   A word usually met beside its negative, unbanked, as in unbanked and inadequately banked rural areas. It is a matter of degree rather than yes-or-no. It takes adverbs such as fully and inadequately, and it describes whole regions as readily as households. Keep it apart from the "row" meaning: a banked village here has a bank to deposit money in, not a bank of earth or a row of seats.

5. 5
   adjective

   Having a bank or arranged in one or more rows or tiers.

   The mixing console had banked channels stacked in neat rows.

   Old telephone exchanges relied on banked relays arranged side by side.

   Similartiered

   Note

   Compounds that count the rows are where it is most at home: a single-banked boat has only one bank of oars. The number goes in front and is hyphenated to the adjective. The bank here is a row or tier, not a slope or a lender, so the word describes how things are arranged side by side or one above another.

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