Definition of Bank vault

1. Noun. A strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables.

Exact synonyms: Vault
Group relationships: Bank, Bank Building
Generic synonyms: Strongroom

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bank Vault

bank of issue
bank on
bank paper
bank pool
bank rate
bank robber
bank robbers
bank run
bank shot
bank statement
bank statements
bank swallow
bank transfer
bank transfers
bank up
bank vault (current term)
bank vole
bank voles
bank withdrawal
bankabilities
bankability
bankable
bankbook
bankbooks
bankcard
bankcards
banke
banked
banker

Literary usage of Bank vault

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Architecture and Building (1912)
"THE design of a bank vault presents new and numerous problems to the engineer that are never realized by the public at large. The construction must be such ..."

2. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by Thomas Hart Benton, United States Congress (1861)
"A depositor is not dependent on the strength of a bank vault, or the honesty of bank officers ... If the bank vault is robbed, or the bank officers commit a ..."

3. The Operation of the New Bank Act by Jr Thomas Conway, Ernest Minor Patterson (1914)
"Perhaps the following summary may be of assistance to the reader: Amount required to be kept in the bank's vault 6/18 Minimum balance on deposit with the ..."

4. National Bank Cases: Containing All Decisions of Both the Federal and State by Isaac Grant Thompson (1878)
"Plaintiff thereupon got his 7-30 notes from the bank vault and delivered them to Hasbrouck, who gave a receipt therefor, written upon the ordinary bank ..."

5. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1909)
"94554 D. Handling Heavy Armor-Plates for f bank vault. Illustrates and describes a difficult job of hoisting and handling in the construction of a bank ..."

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