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CHEQUE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A written order directing a bank to pay money
Example:
he paid all his bills by check
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("cheque" is a kind of...):
bill of exchange; draft; order of payment (a document ordering the payment of money; drawn by one person or bank on another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cheque"):
bad check; bad cheque (a check that is dishonored on presentation because of insufficient funds)
kite (a bank check drawn on insufficient funds at another bank in order to take advantage of the float)
kite (a bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value)
counter check (a blank check provided by a bank for the convenience of customers who are making withdrawals)
giro; giro cheque (a check given by the British government to someone who is unemployed; it can be cashed either at a bank or at the post office)
paycheck; payroll check (a check issued in payment of wages or salary)
certified check; certified cheque (a check containing certification that the person who issued the check has sufficient funds on deposit to cover payment)
personal check; personal cheque (a check drawn against funds deposited in your personal checking account)
cashier's check; cashier's cheque; treasurer's check; treasurer's cheque (a check issued by the officer of a bank on the banks own account (not that of a private person))
blank check; blank cheque (a check that has been signed but with the amount payable left blank)
medicare check; medicare payment (a check reimbursing an aged person for the expenses of health care)
Derivation:
cheque (withdraw money by writing a check)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Withdraw money by writing a check
Synonyms:
check out; cheque
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "cheque" is one way to...):
draw; draw off; take out; withdraw (remove (a commodity) from (a supply source))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
cheque (a written order directing a bank to pay money)
Context examples:
The cheque was genuine.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
—whipped out a key, went in, and presently came back with the matter of ten pounds in gold and a cheque for the balance on Coutts’s, drawn payable to bearer and signed with a name that I can’t mention, though it’s one of the points of my story, but it was a name at least very well known and often printed.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
From these embers the inspector disinterred the butt end of a green cheque book, which had resisted the action of the fire; the other half of the stick was found behind the door; and as this clinched his suspicions, the officer declared himself delighted.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I took the liberty of pointing out to my gentleman that the whole business looked apocryphal, and that a man does not, in real life, walk into a cellar door at four in the morning and come out with another man’s cheque for close upon a hundred pounds.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
