WordNet
stop payment
n. a depositor's order to a bank to refuse payment on a check
Usage examples of "stop payment".
God damn nickel and diming you call fifty one dollars small change like your God damn brother, he gives me seventy five dollars for a hundred dollar check should have told her to stop payment on it.
I can't put up three thousand dollars in cash, and he says he won't take a check for fear I'll stop payment.