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wholesale bank

 
 
noun [C] BANKING, FINANCE

Definition

a bank that lends money to other banks and to large businesses rather than to the public: They raise funds by borrowing mainly from wholesale banks.
(Definition of wholesale bank noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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