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n. Used to associate a non-banking affiliate of a bank with the bank's brand name without using the word bank

n. A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.

n. In law, a seat or bench of justice.

"He recited to them, till they were word-perfect, a music-hall ditty of the early 'eighties -- _Sur le bi, sur le banc, sur le bi du bout du banc_, and delighted them with dissertations on Mme. Yvette Guilbert's earlier repertoire."

bancus    bank   

days in banc    a sitting in banc    a court in banc   

bench   

Blanc    Franck    Frank    Hank    Montblanc    Planck    Ranke    Yank    antitank    bank   

cri    groupe    three-judge    5-star    alengthy    gentilhomme    sorti    pretrial    appellate    environmentalists'