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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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Cashrupter
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: cash-rup-ter
Sentence: Trust us, Miss Pennyworthy at our bank, we promise to cashrupter all of your money very carefully.
Etymology: Cash - Money. Rupt(er)- Taken in part of bank "rupt"cy. Rupter...one who helps a person become bankrupt. :o)
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)
Reelersnstealers
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: REEL ers en STEEL ers
Sentence: At this bank the wheelers and dealers are more like reelersnstealers. They reel you in and then steal from you.
Etymology: WHEELERS and DEALERS: shrewd operators, especially in business REEL: to pull in STEALER: someone who takes something dishonestly
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COMMENTS:
REELY accuRATE! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-27: 01:19:00
Wheely good - TJayzz, 2009-01-27: 10:11:00
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Simonpurelegree
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: sigh-mun-pyoor-leh-gree
Sentence: Once the citizenry realized they had become slaves to an economic system that ultimately only benefitted corporate leaders of banks, they threw off their shackles and exposed the hypocrisy of simonpurelegree. Once convicted and exposed the greedy ones were sent to Guantanomo which was renamed the Simonpurelegrist Mill.
Etymology: From SIMONPURE, an adjective meaning hypocritically virtuous and SIMON LEGREE, the cruel and horrible slavemaster of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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COMMENTS:
I like the creativity in this! - kateinkorea, 2009-01-27: 20:53:00
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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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Savingsandgroan
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: sayv-ingz-and-grone
Sentence: What had once been a successful savings and loan institution had, thru poor financial decisions and practices become a savingsandgroan institution and was inflicting a great deal of financial pain on its clients and associates.
Etymology: Blend of savings and groan, a word play on savings and loan.
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COMMENTS:
They got my savings, so now I'm gonna groan! - Nosila, 2009-01-27: 23:18:00
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Squirlvestor
Created by: LiaraTivona
Pronunciation: skwerl-vest-or
Sentence: "Why would you give your money to a bank that is a known squirlvestor?" "Don't squirlvestor this company away at a time when the competition is looming!"
Etymology: squirrel (v. to store stashes for the future, many of which may not be recovered) investor (n. a person who arranges finances, often on behalf of others, by placing them in other locations in the hopes of future returns)
Fiscalpredaterminus
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: FISS-cull-pred-uh-TERM-ih-nuss (fiscalpredaterminate)
Sentence: Chairman Moe bought his little bank at a fire sale in the 1980's and watched it grow into a financial ziggurat through astute aquisitions, lavish lobbying and deregulation. After stashing his nestegg in the Cayman Islands, Moe watched with detachment as his friendly neighborhood bank became a FISCALPREDATERMINUS - a final resting place for his depositor's hard earned money. As the pyroclastic flow of bad loans and foreclosures swept the monetary madhouse, Moe relaxed on a sandy beach, sipping tropical beverages from coconuts and playing idly with the little paper umbrellas. Next time he would have to increase his executive compensation.
Etymology: FISCAL+PREDATor+TERMINUS= FISCALPREDATERMINUS.....FISCAL:of or relating to financial matters;Latin fiscalis, from fiscus basket, treasury.....PREDATOR:one that preys, destroys, devours or plunders,a mode of life in which wealth is primarily obtained by the killing and consuming of lesser institutions or corporations;Middle English predacion, from Latin praedation-, praedatio, from praedari.....TERMINUS:a final goal,a finishing point,a route leading ultimately to death,being in the final stages of a fatal disease;Latin terminalis, from terminus.
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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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