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DEFINITION: n. A bank which pays huge salaries to its executives who bet their customers' money on dumb investments, risky loans, and the inevitable government bail-out. v. To lend, spend, and mismanage a bank into bankruptcy.
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Bankrapecy
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: bangkrāp(t)sē
Sentence: The punishment for bankrapecy is a million dollars less in bonuses. Bad, bad banker! Take that you naughty person!
Etymology: bankruptcy (declared in law unable to pay outstanding debts) + rape (the crime of forcing another person to have sexual intercourse without their consent)
Baringesse
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: BAIR-ing-JES
Sentence: After the baringesse of his personal banker and his financial planner, Bob's life became downgraded to standard and poor. Furthermore, upon finding out that OED. had redefined "Profit" as an archaic word no longer in use; and that his key banker was living in luxury in the Virgin Islands, the term "instutionalised investor" repercussioned in his head.
Etymology: Formed from BARING: Speculative trading on Singapore's International Monetary Exchange caused the spectacular collapse of Barings Bank, the United Kingdom's oldest investment bank. Barings bank was founded in 1762 by John and Francis Baring & LARGESSE: generous bestowal of gifts. 2. the gift or gifts, as of money, so bestowed.
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COMMENTS:
World Class sentence and word. - silveryaspen, 2009-01-27: 10:03:00
terrific - Jabberwocky, 2009-01-27: 10:18:00
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Dinvestor
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: din - vest - or
Sentence: Margery began to suspect that her bank had become a dinvestor instead of an investor of her funds. Lately, she was growing suspicious that either they were incompetent or that they were siphoning off funds and worried that her money might disappear. There were an increasing number of expensive cars in the parking lot but the property was looking a bit unkempt. She had also stopped receiving statements lately....hmmmm
Etymology: Divest + Investor >>> Divest (In finance and economics, divestment or divestiture is the reduction of some kind of asset for either financial goals or ethical objectives. A divestment is the opposite of an investment) Investor (A person who invests money in order to make a profit)
Growontreepreneur
Created by: GlobalGallery
Pronunciation: grow-on-tree-pren-yer
Sentence: "Thankyou Sir" uttered Manuel as he palmed the wrinkled dollar bill handed to him by the sunburnt banker in the driveway of the country club. "The keys are in your Ferrari, and your golf clubs wouldn't quite fit so I've put them in your wife's Bentley" he said politely. As the Ferrari sped off Manuel wondered if one day he too could be a wealthy growontreepreneur.
Etymology: 1. Money doesn't grow on trees - A phrase used to express the need for financial restraint. 2. entrepreneur - someone who organises a business venture and assumes the risk for it.
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COMMENTS:
An Irony Hit! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-27: 10:08:00
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Rethievership
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: riθēvərship
Sentence: The executives of several financial institutions, Fat Pockets Inc. were upset when their companies were forced into rethievership. They were so stressed that they gave themselves a bonus. They equate it to combat pay.
Etymology: receivership (the state of being dealt with by an official receiver) + thieve (steal something)
Bankboozle
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: bank boo zl
Sentence: Bankboozle (noun or verb). The bankboozle denied its shifty ways of taking finance to the extreme: purchasing companies that didn't exist, providing discredit and embezzling the rest to their shrwiss accounts.
Etymology: This word is a combination of "bank" and part of the word "bamboozle". Bank means to hold (in this case, one's money or investments) and bamboozle means to hoodwink, deceive or confuse.
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COMMENTS:
I think I've been bankboozled before. Good word. - Mustang, 2009-01-27: 19:42:00
meaning so apparent, easy to say, fun to say, good pun, has originality ... exceptional verbotomy. - silveryaspen, 2009-01-28: 01:44:00
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Shitibank
Created by: idavecook
Pronunciation: Shit-EEE-Bay-n-k
Sentence: "I just got a job at Shitibank!" exclaimed Joe the plumber as he leapt unknowingly down the stairs to his demise. To the horror of his co-workers and recent ex-coworkers, they wondered if Joe knew he had been laid off before his neck hit the last step?
Etymology: A loan, a dick, and your ass.
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COMMENTS:
Good play on Citibank butt the etymology?? - mweinmann, 2009-01-27: 11:44:00
Great word...you'd think with exorbitant interest they charge they could keep a few more Joe's on staff.. - Nosila, 2009-01-27: 23:20:00
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Fannyabout
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: fan neee ab owt
Sentence: they went from fanny can to fannyabout to fannymaynot in three months.
Etymology: fanny about as in mess about.
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COMMENTS:
WOW! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-27: 10:12:00
fannymay or fannymae??? - mweinmann, 2009-01-27: 11:41:00
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Mortgouge
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: mor gowj
Sentence: Remember the good old days, when a bank was synonymous with fidelity, trust, credit? Now they only pay you interest when they want to lien on you. They mortgouge your soul and make you do a balancing act everyday. They venture your hard-earned money and sell it into bondage. They make an asset out of you and me and you can take that to the bank.
Etymology: Mortgage (a conditional conveyance of property as security for the repayment of a loan; put up as security or collateral) & Gouge (obtain by coercion or intimidation)
Perfundory
Created by: thegoatisbad
Pronunciation: per-fun-dor-e
Sentence: Kimberly wasn't concerned about the perfundory attitude of bankers because she kept all her dollars stuffed into a mattress locked inside her panic room. In her words: "my funds are not some fat cat's fundough to shape into a golden parachute!"
Etymology: Perfunctory (with little care) + Fund (reserve of money)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James
Willie Sutton would have thrived in today's fiscally permissive climate.
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James