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Definition of Bank vault
1. Noun. A strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bank Vault
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 ..."