What does cheque mean?

Definitions for cheque
tʃɛkcheque

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word cheque.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. check, bank check, chequeverb

    a written order directing a bank to pay money

    "he paid all his bills by check"

  2. cheque, check outverb

    withdraw money by writing a check

Wiktionary

  1. chequenoun

    A note promising to pay money to a named person or entity.

    I was not carrying cash, so I wrote a cheque for the amount.

  2. Etymology: Influenced by exchequer, from eschequier (see further etymology at check).

Wikipedia

  1. Cheque

    A cheque, or check (American English; see spelling differences), is a document that orders a bank (or credit union) to pay a specific amount of money from a person's account to the person in whose name the cheque has been issued. The person writing the cheque, known as the drawer, has a transaction banking account (often called a current, cheque, chequing, checking, or share draft account) where the money is held. The drawer writes various details including the monetary amount, date, and a payee on the cheque, and signs it, ordering their bank, known as the drawee, to pay the amount of money stated to the payee. Although forms of cheques have been in use since ancient times and at least since the 9th century, they became a highly popular non-cash method for making payments during the 20th century and usage of cheques peaked. By the second half of the 20th century, as cheque processing became automated, billions of cheques were issued annually; these volumes peaked in or around the early 1990s. Since then cheque usage has fallen, being partly replaced by electronic payment systems, such as debit cards and credit cards. In an increasing number of countries cheques have either become a marginal payment system or have been completely phased out.

ChatGPT

  1. cheque

    A cheque is a written order from a bank account holder, instructing their bank to pay a specific amount of money to a named beneficiary. It typically includes the payee's name, the issuer's signature, the date, and the amount to be transacted. Cheques serve as an alternative mode of payment to cash or electronic transfer, though their use has diminished due to the growth of digital banking.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Chequenoun

    see Check

Wikidata

  1. Cheque

    A cheque is a document that orders a payment of money from a bank account. The person writing the cheque, the drawer, usually has a current account or checking account where their money was previously deposited. The drawer writes the various details including the monetary amount, date, and a payee on the cheque, and signs it, ordering their bank, known as the drawee, to pay that person or company the amount of money stated. Cheques are a type of bill of exchange and were developed as a way to make payments without the need to carry large amounts of money. While paper money evolved from promissory notes, another form of negotiable instrument, similar to cheques in that they were originally a written order to pay the given amount to whoever had it in their possession. Technically, a cheque is a negotiable instrument instructing a financial institution to pay a specific amount of a specific currency from a specified transactional account held in the drawer's name with that institution. Both the drawer and payee may be natural persons or legal entities. Specifically, cheques are order instruments, and are not in general payable simply to the bearer but must be paid to the payee. In some countries, such as the US, the payee may endorse the cheque, allowing them to specify a third party to whom it should be paid.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Cheque

    Check, chek, n. a money order on a banker payable at demand.—ns. Cheque′-book, a book containing cheque forms given by a bank to its customers; Cheq′uer, Check′er, a chess-board: alternation of colours, as on a chess-board: (pl.) draughts: chess-men.—v.t. to mark in squares of different colours: to variegate: interrupt.—adjs. Cheq′uered, Check′ered, variegated, like a chess-board: varying in character.—ns. Cheq′uer-work, any pattern having alternating squares of different colours; Blank′-cheque, a cheque signed by the owner, but without having the amount to be drawn indicated; Cross′-cheque, an ordinary cheque with two transverse lines drawn across it, which have the effect of making it payable only through a banker. [See Check.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. cheque

    An office in dockyards. Cheque for muster, pay, provision, desertion, discharged, or dead--under DDD. or DSq^d.

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  1. Cheque

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British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'cheque' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2050

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'cheque' in Nouns Frequency: #1428

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cheque in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cheque in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of cheque in a Sentence

  1. Nkosinathi Innocent Maphumulo:

    Even if you get a million views, if you get 5 million on YouTube, the cheque you're going to get for that is like a joke, money is in performances.

  2. Floyd Mayweather:

    I just showed you all a $100 million cheque that I haven't even cashed yet, so we ain't tripping on that.

  3. Bernie Ecclestone:

    There's a lot of teams that if somebody comes along with the right cheque, they would sell, not because they want to, but because commercially they probably think it would be the right thing to do.

  4. Gregor Boehm:

    The ideal equity cheque for each investment will be 125 to 275 million euros from the fund, but together with co-investments from our investors the total equity investment can be up to 1 billion euros and the enterprise value (deal value including debt), even up to 2 billion euros.

  5. Gergely Gulyas:

    Hungary agrees with the ambitious goals set by the EU but we cannot sign a blank cheque, the 2050 climate goals cannot have the consequence of hiking the prices of food or energy.

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