debank/di(ː)ˈbæŋk/EtymologyFrom de- + bank, partly (sense 1) by analogy with deplatform.verbTo deprive a person or organization of banking services, especially for political reasons.“Ms Juric said as well as debanking her business, banks had also debanked her personal accounts and the accounts of people she was related to or lived with.”To cease or cause to stop operating as a bank.“Oil Company of Texas [was] a company with which the Board had been feuding for two years over its efforts to “debank” its subsidiary bank by purporting to abandon demand deposit-taking.”