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 Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
I gave Barlow a demand note, with the farm as collateral, to cover the loan he had made me.
From Dawson Black: Retail Merchant by Harold Whitehead
A five thousand dollar demand note you gave my brother four months ago.
From Rope by Holworthy Hall
“I will if you’ll put up a dollar for security,” said the Idiot, extracting the coin from his pocket, “and give me a demand note at thirty days for the quarter.”
From The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews by John Kendrick Bangs
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