cheques
Written payment orders
Cheques is the British spelling of checks—written orders directing a bank to pay money from an account.
The spelling appears throughout the Commonwealth: She deposited several cheques at the bank.
Americans write checks; Britons, Canadians, and Australians write cheques.
Person owed payment
- drawerSliding furniture compartment
- draweeParty directed to pay
- endorsementFormal expression of support
- signatureHandwritten name for verification
counterfoil · crossing · stale · postdated · bearer · order · blank · certified
Treeless space in forest
- clearinghouseCentral settlement agency
- cashedExchanged for currency
- depositPlace for safekeeping
- bouncedReturned after hitting surface
NSF · insufficient · reconciliation · processing · float · hold · presentment · dishonoured
Record of dealings
- overdraftSpending past zero
- tellerOne who counts
- bankerMoney institution employee
- ledgerFinancial record book
balance · withdrawal · current · savings · branch · bank · draft · remittance
Resolved dispute or colony
- reimbursementPayment for incurred expenses
- disbursementDistribution of funds
- payoutMoney distributed to recipient
- wagesPayment for work
salary · compensation · refund · dues · fees · payroll · alimony · dividend
payee
Person owed payment
- drawerSliding furniture compartment
- draweeParty directed to pay
- endorsementFormal expression of support
signature · counterfoil · crossing · stale · postdated · bearer · order · blank · certified · cashier
clearing
Treeless space in forest
- clearinghouseCentral settlement agency
- cashedExchanged for currency
- depositPlace for safekeeping
bounced · NSF · insufficient · reconciliation · processing · float · hold · presentment · dishonoured · returned
account
Record of dealings
ledger · balance · withdrawal · current · savings · branch · bank · draft · remittance
settlement
Resolved dispute or colony
- reimbursementPayment for incurred expenses
- disbursementDistribution of funds
- payoutMoney distributed to recipient
wages · salary · compensation · refund · dues · fees · payroll · alimony · dividend · rent
- bankingbank, banks, ATM, ATMs, account
- secure documentsbanknotes, passports, certificates, ID cards, birth certificates
- negotiable instrumentsbill of exchange, promissory note, promissory notes, bank draft, bank drafts
- moneydollar, euro, coin, cash, pound
chequescash
Ready spending funds
hard currency · coins · banknotes · credit cards · debit cards
chequeselectronic transfer
Digital funds transmission
digital payment · e-payment · mobile payment · online banking · credit cards
- pay chequeCompensation in paper form
- blank chequesUnsigned drafts allowing unlimited sums
- traveller's chequePreprinted negotiable vacation currency
- bounced chequePayment returned for insufficient funds
- rain chequeFuture purchase guarantee
- cheque bookBound payment slip collection