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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cheque
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bank/cheque cardBritish English (= one that you must show when you write a cheque)
▪ Always keep your cheque book and cheque card separately.
a pay chequeBritish English, a paycheck American English (= the money you earn every week or month)
▪ Stretching your money until the next pay cheque arrives often becomes difficult.
blank cheque
cheque card
crossed cheque
fat cheque
▪ a fat cheque
pay by cheque
▪ I filled up with petrol and then paid by cheque.
sign...cheque
▪ You forgot to sign the cheque.
stop...cheque (=not pay a cheque that I had written)
▪ I phoned the bank and asked them to stop the cheque.
the attached form/cheque/leaflet etc
▪ Please fill in and return the attached reply slip.
traveller's cheque
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
blank
▪ And here ... sign this blank cheque for what you owe.
▪ There will be no blank cheque for missile defence.
▪ He was effectively granted a blank cheque to conduct a war without Congressional authorization for up to 90 days.
stolen
▪ Another example may be a stolen cheque.
▪ Mr Clancy sold it to a trickster who paid with a worthless stolen cheque.
▪ The man found in possession of her stolen cheque book and card has been allowed to walk free from court.
■ NOUN
account
▪ Transfer of funds to a cheque account can be easily implemented after adequate notice.
▪ These combine cheque accounts with securities dealing, mutual funds and other investment services.
▪ Instead, Wilby left the Midland Bank in Barnsley with a £2,500 cheque account, which he used to buy a car.
▪ Sight deposits are, in the main, cheque account funds while time deposits incorporate an element of withdrawal restriction, i.e. notice.
▪ High interest cheque account-Best of both worlds, you get a decent rate of interest and a cheque book.
book
▪ Neither the current cheque book nor the building society passbook was there.
▪ They stole cheque books and bank cards.
▪ Josie was sitting at the table with an open cheque book in front of her, paying bills.
▪ Some accounts come with their own cheque book.
▪ My only experience with the stuff was when half a pound of liver leaked all over my cheque book.
▪ You don't even have to change your cheque book.
▪ Some one nipped in and stole his cheque book and wallet.
▪ Relatives may ask to take valuables, cash, cheque book, etc away with them.
books
▪ Both have so far proved effective, which shows that ready cash is more versatile than credit cards and cheque books.
▪ They stole cheque books and bank cards.
▪ You should never leave credit cards, cheque books, wallets or handbags lying around - nomatterwhere you are.
▪ He collected cheque books for the account and used them to obtain nearly £7,000 in cash and property.
▪ The 2140 machine prints 98.5 feet of paper a minute and can produce half a million cheque books a month.
▪ The account was then allowed to lie dormant while Yousefi collected the cheque books sent out at regular intervals.
▪ Rummaging through, Loretta found receipts from restaurants, postcards from friends, the stubs of several used cheque books.
card
▪ And the new cheque card application?
▪ The accused drew by cheque card on a bank balance which had insufficient funds to meet the sum.
▪ But I will accept personal cheques up to fifty pounds if they are accompanied by a valid cheque card.
▪ The Lords held that there was no difference between a cheque card, as in Charles, and a credit card.
▪ And, you will find that paying by Switch does not restrict you to your cheque card limit.
▪ Always keep your cheque card and cheque book separately - a thief needs both to encash a cheque.
▪ This was £50 worth, the value of the cheque card.
▪ His cheque card was on the table.
guarantee
▪ The bank has simultaneously raised the cheque guarantee limit to £250 for its Premier Visa cardholders..
▪ Clearly, the absence of cheque guarantee cards limited the value of the cheque book facility.
▪ As we saw earlier, societies were previously inhibited in this by the fact that they could not issue cheque guarantee cards.
▪ The fact that such a cheque is supported by a cheque guarantee card makes no difference.
pay
▪ Steve Maxwell Yes-the pay cheque would have been nice-although the elocution lessons would have been a bit tedious.
▪ Hall's main pay cheque comes from selling lambs which go to the lowlands as breeding stock.
▪ Harvard Securities recalled the duplicate pay cheque, as well as truncating the value of the next one.
■ VERB
accept
▪ As consolation, he accepted a £1,000 cheque and the additional prize of being named the Institute's top trainee.
▪ He asks a hotelier if he will accept the cheque in payment of a bill for £15.
▪ In Newtons of Wembley v. Williams a rogue bought a car and persuaded the seller to accept a cheque.
▪ Stephen Benson accepted the cheque on behalf of the hospice.
▪ Thus a seller who in the normal way has accepted a cheque which is later dishonoured, is an unpaid seller.
cash
▪ At Barclays Bank he paid in the cheque from James Salperton and cashed a cheque of his own.
▪ The money will come, I will deposit it, Fakhru will cash his cheque.
▪ A: I need to cash a cheque.
▪ Lloyds Bank cashed a Gieves cheque for £27,000, the crew were paid and a crisis averted.
▪ When he cashes the cheque, he has stolen the amount stated on the face of the cheque.
draw
▪ The funds are then available to be drawn on by cheque as above.
▪ Alternatively, the importer's bank could draw a cheque on its correspondent bank in the exporter's country.
▪ The accused drew by cheque card on a bank balance which had insufficient funds to meet the sum.
enclose
▪ Please enclose a cheque made out to Beverley Borough Council.
▪ Accordingly I enclose a cheque for £248.43.
▪ Meanwhile I enclose a cheque for £50 ... ... an optional magazine at, say, £5pa.
find
▪ Jean-Claude signed it and returned to Paris, to find a cheque waiting for him.
▪ Please find enclosed a cheque for £12 annual subscription for an organisation.
▪ Please find enclosed a cheque for £90.
▪ In one of them he found a collection of cheque stubs and account books that went back to the 1940s.
give
▪ I gave her the cheque in the bedroom.
▪ Or suppose that your husband gave you a cheque for £15,000; wouldn't that be worth a hug?
▪ Cheque Book Within a few days of opening your account you will be given your own cheque book.
▪ Driving licences, in particular, are like giving some one a cheque book.
▪ Our customer certainly thought so - she gave us the cheque before we left!
▪ In the end, in order to escape, Hyde had to give your cousin a cheque in the name of Jekyll.
hand
▪ But do not assume that you will be handed a fat compensation cheque by your financial adviser or life insurance company.
▪ E R.. Mchboob hands the cheque to a small boy to deposit.
▪ Nigel and Shirley handed over the cheque to matron Ann Teaney.
▪ Feeling almost brotherly towards FakhrLI,, Fong handed over the cheque that he knew would bounce.
present
▪ A former miner, Joe was presented with a cheque together with good wishes for a long and happy retirement.
▪ The Court said obiter that presenting a cheque gave rise to the same representations.
▪ The Open Day Committee hope to be able to present a substantial cheque to local charities later in the year.
▪ Bishop Harris presented the cheque to Brother Bonaventure, Prior, at the social evening.
receive
▪ He is shown receiving a cheque from Ralph Ellis, Chief Executive.
▪ I look forward, therefore, to receiving your cheque for £1300 in due course.
▪ But instead of the long wait often involved with the sale of shares, you will receive a cheque for your shares immediately.
▪ Three months after that, Alistair received a cheque for £12.50, which bounced.
▪ Each of the shortlisted authors receives a cheque for £1,000 along with a designer bound edition of their book.
▪ Once the Lords have made their claim they will, in due course, receive a cheque for the claimed amount.
▪ The other five shortlisted authors each receive a cheque for £1,000, bringing the total prize value to £26,000.
send
▪ Instead he sent off a cheque last month for a new licence when his old one expired.
▪ As the Mirror revealed last month, Diana sent a cheque to the Chiswick Rescue.
▪ They would surely write back soon and send a cheque.
▪ He had sent a generous cheque and then had come himself.
▪ To order your wine case, send a cheque for £59.95 made out to.
▪ She had sent a cheque, and Harrods had despatched it by courier.
▪ Sometimes, the mortgage advance will be sent by cheque and on other occasions it may be sent by telegraphic transfer.
sign
▪ The guest must sign the cheque. 6.
▪ And, never sign a cheque before you use it.
steal
▪ The stolen cheque was not discovered until Smyth lodged it into his Northern Bank account which he had opened the previous week.
▪ They stole cheque books and bank cards.
▪ In the same week, they also got into his ground floor flat twice and stole his cheque book and card.
▪ Some one nipped in and stole his cheque book and wallet.
▪ If an accused steals a cheque, he is guilty of theft of a piece of paper.
write
▪ They wrote out a cheque for the place there and then and became the owners of their own pub.
▪ Then he unfolded his cheque-book from his pyjamas and wrote a cheque for 368 shillings and made it out to Sam Fong.
▪ He writes out a generous cheque and sends it off.
▪ Perhaps the Minister could write a cheque.
▪ Then she wrote out a cheque in payment of the forgotten parking-ticket, put it in an envelope and went out.
▪ They write out a cheque but it never gets cashed for it's taken back at once.
▪ Normally he will write a cheque, or withdraw the money and hand it over.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cash a cheque/postal order/draft etc
draw a cheque (on sth)
▪ Alternatively, the importer's bank could draw a cheque on its correspondent bank in the exporter's country.
give sb a blank cheque
▪ We cannot let our democracy become a matter of simply giving a bunch of politicians a blank cheque to govern us every five years.
honour a cheque
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A former miner, Joe was presented with a cheque together with good wishes for a long and happy retirement.
▪ Clearly, the absence of cheque guarantee cards limited the value of the cheque book facility.
▪ He asks a hotelier if he will accept the cheque in payment of a bill for £15.
▪ Instead he sent off a cheque last month for a new licence when his old one expired.
▪ The funds are then available to be drawn on by cheque as above.
▪ The team that finishes bottom will pocket a compensation cheque of £37,000.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cheque

Cheque \Cheque\ (ch[e^]k), n. See Check.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cheque

see check.

Wiktionary
cheque

alt. (context Australia Canada India New Zealand UK English) A draft directing a bank to pay money to a named person or entity. n. (context Australia Canada India New Zealand UK English) A draft directing a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.

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WordNet
cheque

n. a written order directing a bank to pay money; "he paid all his bills by check" [syn: check, bank check]

cheque

v. withdraw money by writing a check [syn: check out]

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Wikipedia
Cheque

A cheque (or check in American English) is a document that orders a bank to pay a specific amount of money from a person's account to the person in whose name the cheque has been issued. The person writing the cheque, the drawer, has a transaction banking account (often called a current, cheque, chequing or checking account) where their money is held. The drawer writes the various details including the monetary amount, date, and a payee on the cheque, and signs it, ordering their bank, known as the drawee, to pay that person or company the amount of money stated.

Cheques are a type of bill of exchange and were developed as a way to make payments without the need to carry large amounts of money. Paper money evolved from promissory notes, another form of negotiable instrument similar to cheques in that they were originally a written order to pay the given amount to whomever had it in their possession (the " bearer").

A cheque is a negotiable instrument instructing a financial institution to pay a specific amount of a specific currency from a specified transactional account held in the drawer's name with that institution. Both the drawer and payee may be natural persons or legal entities. Cheques are order instruments, and are not in general payable simply to the bearer as bearer instruments are, but must be paid to the payee. In some countries, such as the US, the payee may endorse the cheque, allowing them to specify a third party to whom it should be paid.

Although forms of cheques have been in use since ancient times and at least since the 9th century, it was during the 20th century that cheques became a highly popular non- cash method for making payments and the usage of cheques peaked. By the second half of the 20th century, as cheque processing became automated, billions of cheques were issued annually; these volumes peaked in or around the early 1990s. Since then cheque usage has fallen, being partly replaced by electronic payment systems. In an increasing number of countries cheques have either become a marginal payment system or have been completely phased out.

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Usage examples of "cheque".

It felt like one moment my father was what he had been forever a journalist hanging around training grounds hoping for a few exclusive grunts from twenty-year-old footballers on thirty grand a week, and the next he was a bestselling author, cocooned by six-figure royalty cheques, regularly appearing on the artier kind of talk shows, getting recognised in restaurants.

In the early summer of 1968 West was arrested for stealing a cheque and using it to buy a record-player for the caravan, and on 10 June 1968 he was convicted at Cheltenham magistrates court on one count of theft and another of obtaining goods by deception.

But a step in the required direction it was beyond yea or nay and both monetarily and mentally it contained no reflection on his dignity in the smallest and it often turned in uncommonly handy to be handed a cheque at a muchneeded moment when every little helped.

You yourselffrom the endorsement of my cheque for fifty pounds that you wheedled me into giving you for some tomfool guild.

You yourself-from the endorsement of my cheque for fifty pounds that you wheedled me into giving you for some tomfool guild.

I wrote a cheque on Zappata for three hundred sequins, payable at sight.

Holly lived in fairly usual fashion at permanent full stretch of their permitted overdraft, juggling the incoming cheques from the owners with the outgoing expenses of fodder, wages, overheads and taxes.

He mentally added the three totals and then pushed the cheques across to me.

My valet, a walking bank, had found the service routine and had agreed to bring cash for the other cheques to Towcester.

The man there, who was authorized to sign the cheques, is close-lipped.

Allied Electronics, who has already signed two hefty cheques, deposited in Geneva, for a Degas and a Monet whose original owners are now missing or dead.

She 154 looked at the cheques and found they were a good excuse to let her follow Mittendorf into the other office.

Not with tracking down the people to whom cheques -were paid out from that account.

Now if he has sent cheques instead of money, we are sold too, after we thought we had escaped.

While I was daydreaming my arm was grasped, I was hoisted up, the cheque in its gold-ribboned envelope was thrust into my hand.