cheque

CEFRB1

/t͡ʃɛk/

noun

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01
noun
A written order telling a bank to pay money.
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noun
Extra detail
A written order directing a bank to pay money to a person or entity.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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I was not carrying cash, so I wrote a cheque for the amount.
I'll pay by cheque.
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.

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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.
1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, published 1920, page 62
You can avoid dealing with paper cheques — written or printed — by paying your bills online.
2007, Eric Tyson, Tony Martin, Personal Finance for Canadians for Dummies
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.
1722, Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical, page 335
Arms. Argent, a chevron cheque, gules, and of the field, between three bugle horns, sable , garnished of the second, plate 40.
1779, Hugh Clark, Thomas Wormull, The Peerage of the Nobility of England, Scotland, and Ireland, page 137
Parted per pale gules and or, a lion rampant intercharged inter 3 fleurs de lys. 2. A saltire cheque gules and or inter 3 escallop shells gules. 2 Argent, within a bordure azure, semé de fleur de lis or, parted per chevron ermine[…]
1797, Thomas Langley, The History and Antiquities of the Hundred of Desborough, and Deanery of Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire: Including the Borough Towns of Wycombe and Marlow, and Sixteen Parishes, page 442

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From check, possibly influenced by exchequer. First attested in the 1790s.