bank note

or bank·note

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noun

a promissory note, payable on demand, issued by an authorized bank and intended to circulate as money.

Origin of bank note

First recorded in 1685–95

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Related Words for banknote

salary, wage, wealth, pay, bill, cash, payment, fund, capital, property, check, refund, buck, supply, note, currency, security, reserve, investment, stock

Examples from the Web for banknote

Contemporary Examples of banknote

We have security features in the banknote today that resonate with the international community.
All About the Benjamins: Here’s the Redesigned $100 Bill
Daniel Gross
October 7, 2013
Now, you're going to have to excuse the Royalist's idiocy, but I didn't even know there was a £100 banknote.
Queen’s Head on New £100 Note
Tom Sykes
May 30, 2012

Historical Examples of banknote

I too produced my purse and took a crumpled paper out of it:—but it was no banknote.
Debts of Honor
Maurus Jkai
Diogenes sought them with a lantern, he seeks them with a banknote in his hand.
Napoleon the Little
Victor Hugo
When she shook hands with him Nancy had the banknote ready and she left it in his hand.
A Little Miss Nobody
Amy Bell Marlowe
His jaw was set as he pulled off banknote after banknote in the tense silence which had fallen.
'Me-Smith'
Caroline Lockhart
"There's the bill Percy Paget gave to Will," he said, as he handed over the banknote.
The Young Bridge-Tender
Arthur M. Winfield

British Dictionary definitions for banknote

banknote

noun

a promissory note issued by a central bank, serving as money

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