landbank

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noun

A bank which issues notes based on the security of landed property.

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Meanings

nounlandbank (plural landbanks)

plural landbanks · alternative land bank · alternative land-bank

  1. A bank which issues notes based on the security of landed property.

    To establish a current circulating credit upon any Land-bank […] has hitherto proved difficult.

    1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, page 340
  2. An area of land held in reserve (by a house-building firm or investment firm) for future development, redevelopment, or sale.
verblandbank (third-person singular simple present landbanks, present participle landbanking, simple past and past participle landbanked)

present singular third person landbanks · participle present landbanking · participle past landbanked · past landbanked · alternative land bank · alternative land-bank

  1. transitiveTo hold an area of land in reserve pending future development, redevelopment, or sale.

Origin

From land + bank.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Bankland
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APA

landbank. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/landbank

MLA

“landbank.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/landbank. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “landbank,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/landbank.

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