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Depository bank

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

The institution at which a check is first deposited. While this term is often used interchangeably with "depository," "depositary" is a term of art in laws and regulations related to check processing.

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Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

Regulated80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

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Variants

plural
Depository banks
possessive
Depository bank's
pluralpossessive
Depository banks'