commercial bank

noun

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

Examples of commercial bank in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In the credit markets, the share of credit coming from commercial banks has also been shrinking. —Daniel Kern, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025

The senior tranche — a relatively safer slice — of the debt was funded by commercial banks, including Absa , Citi, The Co-operative Bank of Kenya, KCB and Stanbic Bank Kenya. —Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 28 July 2025

These violent changes in interest rates didn’t just cause many commercial banks to go insolvent—their strike extended even to the central bank: the Fed itself. —E.j. Antoni, Boston Herald, 21 July 2025

At that time, the Federal Reserve received authority to pay interest on reserves held by commercial banks. —James Broughel, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1910, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for commercial bank

• antitank
• interbank
• mountebank
• riverbank
• banc
• blank
• clank
• crank
• dank
• drank
• flank
• franc

Kids Definition

commercial bank

noun

: a bank that accepts deposits that can be withdrawn without notice and creates credit through loans mainly to businesses

Legal Definition

commercial bank

see bank