traveler's checks

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of traveler's check.
  traveler's check

  noun

  a check issued in any of various denominations by a bank, travel agency, etc., that is signed by the purchaser upon purchase and again, in the presence of the payee, when cashing the check or using it to pay for goods or services.

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traveler's checks

In that future, cards are as antiquated as traveler’s checks.

From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2024

Isaacson writes that Errol’s emerald business had become “worthless” years earlier, and that he only gave his son $2,000 in traveler’s checks when Elon Musk moved to Canada that year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2023

Even the last stronghold, American Express, had a very long line of us trying to get our traveler’s checks cashed.

From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2021

“Then these must be yours,” he said, and in his hand was my money belt containing my passport, a credit card and hundreds of dollars in traveler’s checks.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2020

I had a few changes of shirts, handkerchiefs and underwear in my duffel, about $200 in traveler’s checks and $20 in cash.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

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