单词 | bank bill |
释义 | bank billn. 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.). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < n.1682 |
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