chequebook
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Pescator says "there's been an open chequebook" at Paramount, which paid a premium for Champions League rights at more than £1bn across four years.
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"Nobody opens a chequebook when you receive an MND diagnosis - you need money to get by, and so does your family."
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But now the chequebook seems to have gone back in the pocket of the prime minister's expensively-cut suit.
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Five minutes later, a marketing guy comes running up with a chequebook.
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Increasingly Taipei relied on its chequebook to hold on to a dwindling list of allies, mainly in the form of aid and investment.
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