CHEQUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cheque mean? 

• CHEQUE (noun)
  The noun CHEQUE has 1 sense:

1. a written order directing a bank to pay money

  Familiarity information: CHEQUE used as a noun is very rare.

• CHEQUE (verb)
  The verb CHEQUE has 1 sense:

1. withdraw money by writing a check

  Familiarity information: CHEQUE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHEQUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A written order directing a bank to pay money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

bank check; check; cheque

Context example:

he paid all his bills by check

Hypernyms ("cheque" is a kind of...):

bill of exchange; draft; order of payment (a document ordering the payment of money; drawn by one person or bank on another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cheque"):

bad check; bad cheque (a check that is dishonored on presentation because of insufficient funds)

kite (a bank check drawn on insufficient funds at another bank in order to take advantage of the float)

kite (a bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value)

counter check (a blank check provided by a bank for the convenience of customers who are making withdrawals)

giro; giro cheque (a check given by the British government to someone who is unemployed; it can be cashed either at a bank or at the post office)

paycheck; payroll check (a check issued in payment of wages or salary)

certified check; certified cheque (a check containing certification that the person who issued the check has sufficient funds on deposit to cover payment)

personal check; personal cheque (a check drawn against funds deposited in your personal checking account)

cashier's check; cashier's cheque; treasurer's check; treasurer's cheque (a check issued by the officer of a bank on the banks own account (not that of a private person))

blank check; blank cheque (a check that has been signed but with the amount payable left blank)

medicare check; medicare payment (a check reimbursing an aged person for the expenses of health care)

Derivation:

cheque (withdraw money by writing a check)

• CHEQUE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Withdraw money by writing a check

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

check out; cheque

Hypernyms (to "cheque" is one way to...):

draw; draw off; take out; withdraw (remove (a commodity) from (a supply source))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

cheque (a written order directing a bank to pay money)

 Context examples 

He must have lost his head, or he never would have left the stick or, above all, burned the cheque book.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In order to obviate any delays possible through any routine requirements as to payment in your departments, we enclose cheque herewith for ten pounds (£10), receipt of which please acknowledge.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

From this he was recalled by Mr. Utterson asking rather suddenly: “And you don’t know if the drawer of the cheque lives there?”

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He will have paper that he write on; he will have his book of cheques.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I gave in the cheque myself, and said I had every reason to believe it was a forgery.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Should the charge be less than this amount, you can return balance; if greater, we shall at once send cheque for difference on hearing from you.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

An act of cruelty to a child aroused against me the anger of a passer-by, whom I recognised the other day in the person of your kinsman; the doctor and the child’s family joined him; there were moments when I feared for my life; and at last, in order to pacify their too just resentment, Edward Hyde had to bring them to the door, and pay them in a cheque drawn in the name of Henry Jekyll.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

We beg to acknowledge £10 received and to return cheque £1 17s. 9d, amount of overplus, as shown in receipted account herewith.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

For my man was a fellow that nobody could have to do with, a really damnable man; and the person that drew the cheque is the very pink of the proprieties, celebrated too, and (what makes it worse) one of your fellows who do what they call good.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But he was quite easy and sneering. ‘Set your mind at rest,’ says he, ‘I will stay with you till the banks open and cash the cheque myself.’ So we all set off, the doctor, and the child’s father, and our friend and myself, and passed the rest of the night in my chambers; and next day, when we had breakfasted, went in a body to the bank.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)