| 单词 | post-office order |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspost-office order post-office order n. now rare a money order for a specified sum issued upon payment at one post office, and payable at another (named) post office to the person specified in a letter of advice. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > postal order post bill1740 money order1802 post-office order1815 order1846 P.O.O.1856 PO1861 postal note1862 postal order1864 mandat1896 M.O.1909 postal draft1929 1815 W. Scott Antiquary I. xv, in Waverley Novels V. 208 I hae been sic a fule as to show you the post-office order. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xvii. 160 No Post-office order is in the interim received from Nicodemus Boffin, Esquire. 1906 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 19 261 The treasurer, to whom fees may be paid by post-office order and checks negotiable in Quebec, is M. Alphonse Gagnon. 2004 Times (Nexis) 20 Feb. 25 How is a man on the heights above Sebastopol to send 100 piastres to anybody at Galata? We have no post-office orders here. < as lemmas |
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