interbank

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interbank — adjective

  • interbankpositive
  • more interbankcomparative
  • most interbanksuperlative

1. relating to the financial activity that takes place among separate banks, rather

1.形容詞B2
釋義

relating to the financial activity that takes place among separate banks, rather than between a bank and its regular customers.

例句

The central bank lowered its main rate to help interbank lending.

attributive use: interbank + lending

Interbank borrowing costs jumped after the sudden drop in bank share prices.

common collocation: interbank borrowing costs

文法句型

interbank + noun

用法筆記

Always used directly before a noun. You cannot say 'this loan is interbank' — the correct form is 'this is an interbank loan'.

常見錯誤

The rate is interbank.
It is an interbank rate.
💡interbank is an attributive adjective; it must come before the noun it describes, never after a linking verb.