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
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
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 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
A five thousand dollar demand note you gave my brother four months ago.
From Rope by Hall, Holworthy
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