BANKING GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
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Money Exchange Table
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House Exchange Table
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Jewellery Exchange Table
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The word ‘bank’ is derived from the French word ‘banque’, which means a bench or a money exchange table.
Detailed explanation-2: -Noun. banque f (plural banques) bank (establishment where financial transactions take place)
Detailed explanation-3: -Etymology 1 Borrowed from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.
Detailed explanation-4: -The word bank was borrowed in Middle English from Middle French banque, from Old Italian banca, meaning “table", from Old High German banc, bank “bench, counter".
Detailed explanation-5: -The literal meaning of Italian banca was “bench, ” but the word was also used for the benchlike counter at which an early money changer transacted business, and later to describe the money changer’s shop itself-the bank.