| 单词 | stop payment |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto stop payment 19. To give instructions to a banker not to cash (a bank note, bill, or the like). Similarly to stop payment (of a note). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > non-payment > not pay [verb (transitive)] > stop payment stop1713 stop1839 1713 London Gaz. No. 4619/11 It being stop'd at the Bank. 1722 Post Man 16–19 June 2/1 With several Notes in it, being of no Value to any but the Owner, Payment being stopt. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 26 They [sc. the bills] should be stopp'd. 1884 E. Yates Recoll. & Experiences II. 194 The numbers of the notes were known, payment of them was stopped. 1892 W. G. Cordingley Commerc. Guide 63 To ‘stop’ a cheque, in cases where it has been lost or stolen, is to give written instructions to the banker it is drawn upon not to pay the cheque when presented. to stop payment b. to stop payment: to declare oneself unable to meet one's financial obligations. Also in shortened form to stop. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [verb (intransitive)] > stop payment to stop payment1766 to shut up1841 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xxxi. 479 It has been determined expressly, that a banker's stopping or refusing payment is no act of bankruptcy. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. ix. 181 But what will that be to the news that Osbaldistone and Tresham have stopped! 1864 C. E. L. Riddell George Geith III. xxxv. 29 The bank has stopped payment. 1879 J. Ruskin Let. 31 Oct. in Wks. (1908) XXXIV. 238 Written contracts are all very well, but if the contractor stops payment—where are you? 1898 W. J. Greenwood Commerc. Corr. (ed. 2) 40 The house mentioned in yours of the 3rd inst. is daily expected to stop payment. < as lemmas |
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