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单词 bank bill
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bank billn.

Brit. /ˈbaŋk ˌbɪl/, U.S. /ˈbæŋk ˌbɪl/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bank n.3, bill n.1
Etymology: < bank n.3 + bill n.1 Compare slightly later banknote n.
1. Originally: a promissory note given by a banker; (later) a piece of paper money; = banknote n. Cf. bill n.3 9c. Now rare (chiefly North American after 18th cent.).
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > [noun] > a banknote
bank bill1682
bill1682
note1695
money bill1713
banknote1759
post-note1788
screen1789
stiff1823
flimsy1824
shin-plaster1824
billet1837
pennif1862
toadskin1867
currency note1891
dead president1944
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > a promissory note or bill of exchange
exchange1485
bill1579
bill1613
hundi1619
assignment1622
cambio1645
note1653
order1673
bank bill1682
banknote1695
assignation1704
promissory note1710
note of hand1728
stiff1823
time bill1842
PO1861
marker1887
1682 R. Lawrence Interest Irel. in its Trade & Wealth ii. i. 11 Bank-Bills of 500 l. will not weigh one ounce, but be safely conveyed from place to place by Post, or otherwise, without danger of robbing.
1696 W. Killigrew Proposal 9 Consider the vast Loss our Trade has had of late, by This, and the Bank-Bills..: How impudently have Men been refused their own Money, payable on Demand.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 26. ⁋9 If I have not left..Bank Bills for 200l.
1752 D. Hume Polit. Disc. v. 91 To stuff the nation with this fine commodity of bank-bills and chequer-notes, as if we were afraid of being overburthen'd with the precious metals.
1760 J. Wesley Let. 18 Feb. (1931) IV. 84 I received a £20 Bank bill from an anonymous correspondent.
1839 C. F. Briggs Adventures Harry Franco I. iv. 17 My father put a small roll of bank-bills into my hand.
1860 Amer. Agriculturist 19 358/1 The money goes streaming off into the air as palpably as if a whirlwind took up a pile of bank bills.
1922 Canad. Mag. Aug. 289/1 ‘Here’—indicating some bank bills—‘is enough money to get you to Toronto easily.’
2003 J. Goodwin Greenback viii. 130 Every colonial bank bill carried the hopeful legend To Counterfeit is Death.
2. A type of interest-bearing promissory note issued by the Bank of England until the mid 18th cent. Also more fully sealed bank bill. Now historical.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > other promissory notes or bills
warrant1433
assignmentc1460
policy1623
navy bill1679
redraft1682
tally of pro1691
bank bill1694
bank seal bill1696
chequer-bill1697
assignation1704
chequer-note1705
mint bill1707
transport debenture1707
transport-bill1710
loan-bill1722
treasury note1756
tin bill1778
treasury-bill1798
rescription1800
short bill1808
treasury-warrant1834
sight bill1853
short-paper1912
treasuries1922
T.B.1936
T.D.R.1948
T-Bill1982
1694 J. Briscoe Abstr. Disc. Late Funds Million-act, Lottery-act, & Bank of Eng. 4 A Man may have 60 l. 16 s. 8 d. per Annum Interest for 2000 l. Bank-Bills.
1696 London Gaz. No. 3166/4 A Bank Bill for 100l. with Interest at 2d. a day.
1711 London Gaz. No. 4875/4 Lost..a Sealed Bank Bill of 100l. at 6 per Cent.
1735 Lives Most Remarkable Criminals I. p. xxi Any Seal'd Bank Bill given out in the Name of the said Governor and Company.
2004 R. E. Connor Women, Accounting, & Narr. iii. 121 Sealed Bank bills, which were interest-bearing and issued by the Bank of England.
3. A bill of exchange issued by one bank to another; a bank draft.
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1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 130 Bank bill, a note on the bank, which being accepted by a cashier, will be paid when due.
1875 Law Times Rep. 32 343/1 He bonâ fide believed that the bill was a ‘bank bill’ drawn upon the drawer's bank in London.
1930 Yale Law Jrnl. 40 252 The transferor of a bank bill of an insolvent bank was held liable.
2001 B. Coyle Money Markets iv. 43 If the bank bills were to be issued in paper form, the client would leave a supply of blank signed bills with the Treasury department of the bank.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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