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Financial vs Banklike - What's the difference?

financial | banklike |

As adjectives the difference between financial and banklike

is that financial is related to finances while banklike is having the characteristics of a bank building.

financial

English

Adjective

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  • Related to finances.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
  • Having dues and fees paid up to date for a club or society.

    • Usage notes

    Not to be confused with (fiscal), which means more narrowly “pertaining to a treasury, particularly to government spending and revenue”, rather than to money generally.

    Derived terms

    * financial market * financial year * financial regulation

    Related terms

    * finances * financier

    See also

    * fiscal

    banklike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the characteristics of a bank building.
  • * {{quote-news, pagetitle=banklike, year=2007, date=April 26, author=Ellen Barry, title=New Bank Courts in Queens Neighborhood Where Many Have Long Trusted Only in Cash, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=By yesterday’s opening, the building on 21st Street in Long Island City, Queens — once home to a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet — seemed distinctly banklike .}}
  • (banking, business) Resembling an institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
  • * {{quote-news, pagetitle=banklike, year=2007, date=June 21, author=Michael Barbaro, title=At Wal-Mart, a Back Door Into Banking, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The new products, like the prepaid debit card, will be offered through third-party partners, allowing Wal-Mart to sell banklike services without a government license.}}
  • * {{quote-news, pagetitle=banklike, year=2008, date=June 13, author=Louise Story, title=As Banks Shun Loans, Hedge Funds Move In, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=These banklike hedge funds had about $12 billion in assets to lend as of the end of last year, up from $900 million three years ago, according to HedgeFund.net.}}