demand note
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of demand note
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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Mr. Doherty holds a demand note against the Company for $1,200,000, secured by $3,000,000 worth of pipe line and tank cars.
From Time Magazine Archive
He played sympathetic good fellow, and offered to lend me fifty thousand dollars on a demand note.
From The Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)
It was his own demand note, payable to John Starkweather and endorsed by him to Mirabelle.
From Rope by Hall, Holworthy
He now had to weather the last turn—a demand note from the American brokers—and for this he required Ole Henriksen's assistance; after that he hoped to be able to manage unaided.
From Shallow Soil by Hyllested, Carl Christian
It was a demand note, because, when we fixed it up, Barrington had said he wanted it to run an indeterminate time.
From Dawson Black: Retail Merchant by Whitehead, Harold
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