demand note

American  

noun

1. a note payable upon presentation.

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demand note British  

noun

1. a promissory note payable on demand

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Etymology

Origin of demand note

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

Its fatal flaw is that its strength is entirely borrowed�and on a demand note at that�from the nations that compose it.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

“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 Bangs, John Kendrick

No rate collector irritates them with his imperious "demand note."

From London's Underworld by Holmes, Thomas