giro
Americannoun
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giros
plural
noun
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a system of transferring money within the financial institutions of a country, such as banks and post offices, by which bills, etc may be paid by filling in a giro form authorizing the debit of a specified sum from one's own account to the credit of the payee's account
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informal an unemployment or income support payment by giro cheque, posted fortnightly
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of giro
By shortening
Example Sentences
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"No, you don't understand, I had to wait for the post office to open so I could cash my giro and buy these boots," said the young hopeful, pulling the box out of his bag.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2011
One unemployed chap said he was going to donate a tenner out of his next giro.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 30, 2010
When the clutch is disengaged and the blades are suddenly given a sharp angle of incidence, the giro jumps some 15 feet straight off the ground.
From Time Magazine Archive
The modern giro is completely wingless, is merely a fuselage with a propeller, a tail, a direct-control rotor.
From Time Magazine Archive
The giro business in Germany, however, is far from having attained the dimensions that the use of checks has in England and America.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips
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