landbank

English

Alternative forms

• land bank

Etymology

land +‎ bank

Noun

landbank (plural landbanks)

1. A bank which issues notes based on the security of landed property.
   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, page 340:

     To establish a current circulating credit upon any Land-bank […] has hitherto proved difficult.

2. An area of land held in reserve by a house-building firm.