Noun
a commercial bank chartered by the federal government
Source: WordNetThe idea of creating a national bank I do not concur in, because it seems now decided that Congress has not that power (although I sincerely wish they had it exclusively), and because I think there is already a vast redundancy rather than a scarcity of paper medium. Thomas Jefferson
I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank. Ethel Merman
And the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soul To the old folks home and the college. Bob Dylan
A soufflé doesn't rise twice; neither will the National Bank. Vijay R. Singh
First National Bank laid off 1,000 people; where do they go? There are no jobs for them. So we are having serious economic problems in this country. We are in a real economic crisis. Richard M. Daley
In numerous years following the war the Federal government ran a heavy surplus. It could not pay off it's debt, retire its securities, because to do so meant there would be no bonds to back the national bank notes. To pay off the debt was to destroy the money supply. John Kenneth Galbraith