单词 | banknote |
释义 | banknoten. 1. As two words or with hyphen. A promissory note given by a banker, payable at a fixed date to a specified payee. Now historical and rare.See note at sense 2. ΘΚΠ 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 1695 London Gaz. No. 3046/4 A Bank Note for 17l. 2s. 4d. payable to Philip Wheake. 1696 W. Killigrew Proposal 4 May we not be Necessitated to loose 5. 10. 15. or 20 l. per Cent. or more, and be glad we can get any thing? May they not have People ready to buy the Bank-Notes of the Necessitous, with the Bank's-Money. 1714 London Gaz. No. 5271/4 Four Circular Bank Notes for 100l. each all payable to Mr. Pope..or Bearer, with Interest. 1765 Act 5 Geo. III c. 49 Preamble Bank notes..in the option of the issuer or granter payable at the end of six months. 1934 R. D. Richards in J. G. van Dillen Hist. Principal Public Banks 222 It must be noted that the Bank note payable to X or order was a legally recognised assignable instrument. 2. A piece of paper money of a fixed denomination, circulating as currency. Also figurative. Cf. note n.2 21a.During the 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a gradual transition from sense 1 to this sense, as banknotes developed from being promissory notes, on which the sum payable and the name of the payee were written by hand, to being fully printed pieces of paper currency in specific denominations (technically constituting a central bank's promissory note to pay the stated sum to the bearer on demand). By 1745 the Bank of England was issuing notes in fixed denominations, although the signature and the name of the payee were added by hand; the first fully printed Bank of England banknotes were issued in 1853. The U.S. Treasury first issued fully printed banknotes in 1862.In North American usage the usual term is now bill (bill n.3 9c); see also bank bill n. 1. 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 1759 Life & Real Adventures Hamilton Murray I. xix. 231 The gentleman..very complaisantly told me, I had won the wager; at the same time putting a twenty pound bank-note into my hand, for which I gave him change. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. ii. 390 When a ten pound bank note comes into the hands of a consumer, he is generally obliged to change it at the first shop where he has occasion to purchase five shillings worth of goods. View more context for this quotation 1781 Jrnls. Congr. (1782) 7 109 The bank notes [issued by the proposed national bank for the United States], payable on demand, shall by law be made receivable in the duties and taxes of every state in the union. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 61 In 1777 [in Sweden], a judicious realization of the paper took place; and silver, with national bank notes, form a sure medium. 1820 B. A. Heywood Observ. Circulation Individ. Credit on Banking Syst. Eng. II. 54 The great business transacted by merchants and commercial bankers is already..almost entirely disconnected from the use of bank notes and coin. 1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets v. 9 If speech is the banknote for an inward capital of culture. 1858 Househ. Monthly Mag. Oct. 62/1 Five bank-notes, each valuing 100 dollars. 1870 F. C. Bowen Logic ix. 274 Money may mean either specie, or bank-notes, or currency consisting of a mixture of these two. 1913 Daily News 1 Nov. 7 The plaintiff..was carrying a wallet containing £370 in bank-notes. 1970 D. Bagley Running Blind i. 28 A 100-kronur banknote. 1995 J. Barclay Paras over the Barras (2002) v. 71 ‘Good on ye, Jimmy,’ Fingers said, pulling out a wad of banknotes and peeling a couple off. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ ?1779 Mem. Life J. Matthieson 22 The note produced to him was not even printed on the common bank note paper. 1798 F. Higgins Let. 13 June in T. Bartlett Revolutionary Dublin (2004) 254 As to banknote currency, I do most solemnly assure you that the shopkeepers and dealers laugh at any person even buying an article and asking change of a guinea note. 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 136 Steel Engraved Bank Note Plates. 1855 Knickerbocker Nov. 544 A perfect vade-mecum for all letterers, whether bank-note engravers, sign-painters, or type-founders. 1977 Transatlantic Rev. No. 60. 192 Were you aware..that the largest ingredient of bank-note paper was Indian Hemp? 2000 Big Issue 6 Mar. 4/4 One of the world's leading banknote manufacturers. C2. attributive. U.S. Designating a periodical or published list showing the current value of banknotes in circulation and identifying counterfeit notes, as banknote detector, banknote reporter, banknote table, etc. historical after mid 19th cent.Before 1861, banknotes in the United States were issued by privately owned banks with no federal regulation or uniformity. A uniform national currency was established by the National Banking Act of 1863.Frequently in titles of publications. ΚΠ 1823 National Advocate (N.Y.) 9 Aug. (headline) Bank note table. 1834 Reg. Deb. Congr. 23 Jan. 2523 Examine the bank note table which is almost daily furnished us in the public prints. 1839 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 21 Jan. (advt.) Sylvester's (new) reporter and bank note detector. 1854 Bankers' Mag. Nov. 382 Our bank-note lists teem with descriptions of the many fraudulent imitations of American bank-notes. 1855 C. R. Weld Vac. Tour U.S. & Canada viii. 217 The wretched bank-notes..are so frequently imitated that, unless the traveller is provided with a ‘Bank-Note Reporter’, published monthly, and continually consults it, he is sure to be imposed upon. 2007 R. Sylla in P. Fishback et al. Govt. & Amer. Econ. v. 135 The United States at long last obtained a uniform paper currency... No longer did money handlers have to consult banknote reporters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1695 |
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