unbanked
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.96 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of a train, not having the assistance of a banker (etymology 3) when climbing a steep grade (or bank).
verb
simple past and past participle of unbank
Example Sentences
- "It targeted the unbanked poor – "the watchmen, tomato sellers and small-scale farmers" whom Mwangi lists as typical customers – with cheap savings accounts and microloans backed by unusual guarantees."
- "[M]any low-income people are "unbanked" (not served by a financial institution), and thus nearly eaten alive by exorbitant fees. As the St. Louis Federal Reserve pointed out in 2010: "Unbanked consumers spend approximately 2.5 to 3 percent of a government benefits check and between 4 percent and 5 percent of payroll check just to cash them. […]["]"
- "But many feel as though it’s a matter of time before the MTA stops accepting cash, like many retailers have, which has essentially excluded people who are unbanked and lack a credit or debit card."
- "However, it was recently made obvious, both that the B.R./Sulzer Type 4s can comfortably negotiate the bank without help on the normal express train formations of this route, and also that the Western Region wants to eliminate the expense of providing bankers."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English bank Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English unbanked From un- + bank + -ed.