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iban

UK/ibən/US/ibən/
nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written

Other forms: ibans

An IBAN is the international code identifying a bank account abroad. Give your IBAN, a long IBAN, check the IBAN.

It packs the country, the bank and the account into one string with a check built in, so a mistyped IBAN is usually rejected rather than misdelivered. Length varies by country, from fifteen characters to over thirty.

Definitions of iban

  1. 1nounibanThe international code identifying a bank account abroad.C1

    “The transfer bounced because one character of the IBAN was wrong.”

iban is a code.

Practised in Bank & Post Office

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