rare. [f. EM- + BANK sb.3 + -MENT.] A banking speculation; a bank account. Also attrib.

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1813.  Shelley, in Hogg, Life (1858), II. 198. The embankment affairs in which I thoughtlessly engaged.

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18[?].  Jeffrey, Lett., in Cockburn, Life, II. 365. I am sorry your embankment is no larger. Ibid., 429. And how does the embankment proceed?

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