commercial bank
noun [C] BANKINGDefinition
› a bank with branches in many different places that offers services to people and businesses, for example, keeping money in accounts and lending money: After the crash of 1929, commercial banks were barred from doing investment-banking business.
→ Compare investment bank, retail bank(Definition of commercial bank noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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