commercial bank


commercial bank

noun

Definition of COMMERCIAL BANK

: a bank organized chiefly to handle the everyday financial transactions of businesses (as through demand deposit accounts and short-term commercial loans)

First Known Use of COMMERCIAL BANK

1910

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