| 单词 |
banco |
| 释义 |
▪ I. ‖ banco, a.|ˈbæŋkəʊ|
[It.; = bank.]
A term used to indicate the bank money of account in certain places, as distinguished from the current money or currency, when the latter had been depreciated from the earlier value retained by bankers in calculating exchanges with foreign countries. Thus at Hamburg, while the current mark was worth 1s. 11/16d., the mark banco was valued at 1s. 5½d. sterling.
1753Hanway Trav. (1762) I. vii. lxxxviii. 407 Exchange..290 grosch per pound flemish banco. 1759Chesterfield Lett. 350 IV. 158 The Specie, Banco, Usances, Agio. 1809R. Langford Introd. Trade 28 Three Thousand Banco Marks [at Hamburgh].
▪ II. ‖ banco, n. Law.|ˈbæŋkəʊ|
[L., abl. of bancus bench: see bank n.2, and cf. banc.]
In L. phr. in banco = on the bench: applied to sittings of a Superior Court of Common Law as a full court, as distinguished from the sittings of the judges at Nisi Prius, or on circuit.
1768[see bank n.2 2]. 1863[see banc].
▪ III. ‖ banco, int.|ˈbæŋkəʊ|
[Fr., a. It. banco (see bank n.3).]
In games of hazard such as baccarat and chemin-de-fer, a player's proposal to the banker to stake his capital on a single coup.
1789J. Moore Zeluco I. viii. 38 As he shook the box, being about to throw, the Hussar officer cried, Banco; and the others took up what they had staked. 1910Encycl. Brit. III. 121/1 The banker places before him the sum he wishes to stake and the punters do likewise, unless a punter desires to go bank, signifying his intention by saying, Banco! In this case he plays against the entire stake of the banker. 1964A. Wykes Gambling vii. 178 Any player may bet against the whole of the banker's stake by calling ‘banco’.
▪ IV. banco
var. bunco n. |
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