zombie bank
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.91 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But governments and central banks vouched for the zombie banks, which were able to keep borrowing dollars from banks in other countries."
Etymology
First used in reference to the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997, possibly coined by economist Edward Kane.