cheque
noun
- document ordering a specific amount of money from a bank
- lump-sum payment given to a rural worker at the end of seasonal contract
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɛk/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tek- Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšáyati Proto-Iranian *xšáyati Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ) Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (mlkʾ) Classical Persian شاه (šāh)bor. Arabic شَاه (šāh)bor. Medieval Latin scaccusder. Old French eschecbor. Middle English chek English check ▲ English exchequerinflu.? English cheque From check, possibly influenced by exchequer. First attested in the 1790s.
- Obsolete form of chequy.
“George PARK of FULFORDLIES, descended of the Family of Parkswells, carries Or, a Fesse Cheque, Gules and Argent; between Three Bucks Heads cabossed, all within a Border of the 2d; Motto, Providentia me committo.”
“Arms. Argent, a chevron cheque, gules, and of the field, between three bugle horns, sable , garnished of the second, plate 40.”
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tek- Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšáyati Proto-Iranian *xšáyati Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ) Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (mlkʾ) Classical Persian شاه (šāh)bor. Arabic شَاه (šāh)bor. Medieval Latin scaccusder. Old French eschecbor. Middle English chek English check ▲ English exchequerinflu.? English cheque From check, possibly influenced by exchequer. First attested in the 1790s.
- A written order directing a bank to pay money to a person or entity.
“I was not carrying cash, so I wrote a cheque for the amount.”
“They do not, however, all deal with the same banker, and when A gives a cheque to B, B usually pays it not into the same but into some other bank.”