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

Yet Mr. Mix beamed, with almost ecclesiastical poise, upon the holder of his demand note, and tried her with honey.

From Rope by Hall, Holworthy

Each time a new note, a demand note for the total amount, was made, cancelling the former one.

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