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DEFINITION: n. A bank which pays huge salaries to its executives who bet their customers' money on dumb investments, risky loans, and the inevitable government bail-out. v. To lend, spend, and mismanage a bank into bankruptcy.
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Squirlvestor
Created by: LiaraTivona
Pronunciation: skwerl-vest-or
Sentence: "Why would you give your money to a bank that is a known squirlvestor?" "Don't squirlvestor this company away at a time when the competition is looming!"
Etymology: squirrel (v. to store stashes for the future, many of which may not be recovered) investor (n. a person who arranges finances, often on behalf of others, by placing them in other locations in the hopes of future returns)
Bankrapecy
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: bangkrāp(t)sē
Sentence: The punishment for bankrapecy is a million dollars less in bonuses. Bad, bad banker! Take that you naughty person!
Etymology: bankruptcy (declared in law unable to pay outstanding debts) + rape (the crime of forcing another person to have sexual intercourse without their consent)
Baringesse
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: BAIR-ing-JES
Sentence: After the baringesse of his personal banker and his financial planner, Bob's life became downgraded to standard and poor. Furthermore, upon finding out that OED. had redefined "Profit" as an archaic word no longer in use; and that his key banker was living in luxury in the Virgin Islands, the term "instutionalised investor" repercussioned in his head.
Etymology: Formed from BARING: Speculative trading on Singapore's International Monetary Exchange caused the spectacular collapse of Barings Bank, the United Kingdom's oldest investment bank. Barings bank was founded in 1762 by John and Francis Baring & LARGESSE: generous bestowal of gifts. 2. the gift or gifts, as of money, so bestowed.
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COMMENTS:
World Class sentence and word. - silveryaspen, 2009-01-27: 10:03:00
terrific - Jabberwocky, 2009-01-27: 10:18:00
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Rethievership
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: riθēvərship
Sentence: The executives of several financial institutions, Fat Pockets Inc. were upset when their companies were forced into rethievership. They were so stressed that they gave themselves a bonus. They equate it to combat pay.
Etymology: receivership (the state of being dealt with by an official receiver) + thieve (steal something)
Reelersnstealers
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: REEL ers en STEEL ers
Sentence: At this bank the wheelers and dealers are more like reelersnstealers. They reel you in and then steal from you.
Etymology: WHEELERS and DEALERS: shrewd operators, especially in business REEL: to pull in STEALER: someone who takes something dishonestly
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COMMENTS:
REELY accuRATE! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-27: 01:19:00
Wheely good - TJayzz, 2009-01-27: 10:11:00
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Loanarranger
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: lone ar rayn jer
Sentence: When Mary opened an account at the local bank, she was hoping to borrow enough money to finance a new home. She soon realized that the money she would borrow would cost her five times again as much in interest and that virtually she never would really own her home, in her lifetime. The interest that this loanarranger charged her went towards expensive lifestyles and foolish investment decisions of the bank's executives. She stormed out of the bank manager's office, crying "Goodbye, accrual world!"
Etymology: Loan Arranger (institute/person who lends money at an exhorbitant interest rate) & Wordplay on The Lone Ranger (1950's tv Western series of a lone surviving Texas Ranger who was nursed back to health by the Indian Tonto rides with him, on Silver and Scout, throughout the West, doing good while living off a silver mine which supplies him with income and bullets)
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COMMENTS:
Hi ho silver and gold! - scrabbelicious, 2012-01-13: 07:59:00
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Bankboozle
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: bank boo zl
Sentence: Bankboozle (noun or verb). The bankboozle denied its shifty ways of taking finance to the extreme: purchasing companies that didn't exist, providing discredit and embezzling the rest to their shrwiss accounts.
Etymology: This word is a combination of "bank" and part of the word "bamboozle". Bank means to hold (in this case, one's money or investments) and bamboozle means to hoodwink, deceive or confuse.
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COMMENTS:
I think I've been bankboozled before. Good word. - Mustang, 2009-01-27: 19:42:00
meaning so apparent, easy to say, fun to say, good pun, has originality ... exceptional verbotomy. - silveryaspen, 2009-01-28: 01:44:00
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Fannyabout
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: fan neee ab owt
Sentence: they went from fanny can to fannyabout to fannymaynot in three months.
Etymology: fanny about as in mess about.
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COMMENTS:
WOW! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-27: 10:12:00
fannymay or fannymae??? - mweinmann, 2009-01-27: 11:41:00
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Fiscalpredaterminus
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: FISS-cull-pred-uh-TERM-ih-nuss (fiscalpredaterminate)
Sentence: Chairman Moe bought his little bank at a fire sale in the 1980's and watched it grow into a financial ziggurat through astute aquisitions, lavish lobbying and deregulation. After stashing his nestegg in the Cayman Islands, Moe watched with detachment as his friendly neighborhood bank became a FISCALPREDATERMINUS - a final resting place for his depositor's hard earned money. As the pyroclastic flow of bad loans and foreclosures swept the monetary madhouse, Moe relaxed on a sandy beach, sipping tropical beverages from coconuts and playing idly with the little paper umbrellas. Next time he would have to increase his executive compensation.
Etymology: FISCAL+PREDATor+TERMINUS= FISCALPREDATERMINUS.....FISCAL:of or relating to financial matters;Latin fiscalis, from fiscus basket, treasury.....PREDATOR:one that preys, destroys, devours or plunders,a mode of life in which wealth is primarily obtained by the killing and consuming of lesser institutions or corporations;Middle English predacion, from Latin praedation-, praedatio, from praedari.....TERMINUS:a final goal,a finishing point,a route leading ultimately to death,being in the final stages of a fatal disease;Latin terminalis, from terminus.
Dinvestor
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: din - vest - or
Sentence: Margery began to suspect that her bank had become a dinvestor instead of an investor of her funds. Lately, she was growing suspicious that either they were incompetent or that they were siphoning off funds and worried that her money might disappear. There were an increasing number of expensive cars in the parking lot but the property was looking a bit unkempt. She had also stopped receiving statements lately....hmmmm
Etymology: Divest + Investor >>> Divest (In finance and economics, divestment or divestiture is the reduction of some kind of asset for either financial goals or ethical objectives. A divestment is the opposite of an investment) Investor (A person who invests money in order to make a profit)

Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James
Willie Sutton would have thrived in today's fiscally permissive climate.
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James