"Unbanked"

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:03 AM -0500 2/18/11, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>Not new. I found uses back to 1985, then quit.
>DanG
>

Not to be confused with "the unbank" (used as a description of, and a
self-descriptor by, a variety of ATMs and credit unions) and the
corresponding verb, as in the promo for one such local credit union,
Connex:  "Unbank with us".

LH

>On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Martin Kaminer
><martin.kaminer at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>  "'We don't want to raise fees on our customers, but unfortunately
>>  regulation
>>  is forcing us to do it, and as a result, some customers may end up
>>  unbanked,'" said a Chase spokeswoman."
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>>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703808704576062251813426390.html
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>>  I suggested that the poor fellow who perished at the Winter Olympics was an
>>  example of someone who ended up unbanked but my sister wisely pointed out
>>  that he had been forcibly disembanked.
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