bank paper

American  

noun

1. drafts, bills, and acceptances payable by banks.

2. commercial paper that may be discounted in a bank.

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Etymology

Origin of bank paper

First recorded in 1780–90

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Example Sentences

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bank paper

If a further issue of United States notes were authorized, it would be at once followed by the issue of more bank paper, and then we would have the wildest speculation.

From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by John Sherman

A man placed a bank paper bag containing £63 10s. on the counter at the chief post-office in Swansea, one day last week, while he changed a postal order.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman

This has caused such powerful invasions of bank paper, like sudden and succeeding flights of birds of prey and passage, and the rapid disappearance of specie at its approach.

From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Daniel Webster

I have called the actual circulation of bank paper in the United States, two hundred millions of dollars.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph

These heavy disbursements cannot be carried on merely by the ordinary bank paper and the gold and silver of the country.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

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