{
  "id": "bank.financial",
  "term": "bank",
  "sense": "financial",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "E5",
  "domain": "economics",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "an institution where people hold and manage money through accounts",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "building.structure",
      "money.economic",
      "services.economic",
      "account.financial",
      "people.social",
      "keep.maintenance",
      "use.application",
      "hold.physical",
      "management.administrative"
    ],
    "interaction": "the building hosts services that use accounts to help people keep and manage money",
    "novel_properties": [
      "regulated financial access",
      "centralized monetary recordkeeping",
      "institutional money management"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "JPMorgan Chase operates 4,700 branches across the U.S., managing $3.3 trillion in assets as of 2023.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Bank of England, founded in 1694, held and managed state funds during the Nine Years' War.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2008, Deutsche Bank processed over €1.5 trillion in daily clearing transactions before system overloads triggered emergency protocols.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "bank",
    "banked",
    "banking",
    "banks"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added hold.physical and management.administrative to components, as they are necessary for 'hold' and 'manage' in the definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-bank.financial"
}