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
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
Yet Mr. Mix beamed, with almost ecclesiastical poise, upon the holder of his demand note, and tried her with honey.
From Rope by Holworthy Hall
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 Harold Whitehead
No rate collector irritates them with his imperious "demand note."
From London's Underworld by Thomas Holmes
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