antibank

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ bank

Adjective

antibank (comparative more antibank, superlative most antibank)

1. Opposing banks (financial institutions).
   • 1998, Margaret Ellen Newell, From Dependency to Independence, page 153:

     Thus, although opponents of the private bank proposal accused its supporters of undermining the colony's sovereignty, the antibank cohort themselves viewed the provincial government's power as circumscribed.

   • 2000, Donald John Ratcliffe, The Politics of Long Division, page 101:

     By 1824 antibank feeling had triumphed, in that most banks in Ohio had collapsed or gone out of business during the depression […]

Translations

opposing banks (financial institutions)

• Portuguese: antibancos