Noun: banco
| Singular | banco |
| Plural | bancos |
Sample Sentences
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banco money
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On account of the great confidence placed on them, payments in banco soon gained a premium on payments in current coin, so that speculation arose on the fluctuating premium. [1941, Sir John Harold Clapham, Eileen Edna Power, The Cambridge Economic History of Europe:]
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Bond had spent the last two afternoons and most of the nights at the Casino, playing complicated progression systems on the even chances at roulette. He made a high banco at chemin-de-fer whenever he heard one offered. [1953, Ian Fleming, chapter 4, in Casino Royale, page 23:]
Nouns inflected like banco
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian banco. Doublet of banc, bank, and bench. See: Italian Nouns '
banco'.