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▪ I. ‖ giro1|ˈdʒiro|
[It. giro a round, circuit:—L. gȳrus, a. Gr. γῦρος circle: cf. gyrate.]
A tour, circuit; a ‘turn’.
1670R. Lassels Voy. Italy Pref. a vj, And no man understands Livy and Cæsar..like him who hath made exactly the Grand Tour of France and the Giro of Italy. 1823Lady Morgan Salvator Rosa iii. (1824) I. 100 Nearly all his biographers have alluded to this early and singular giro. 1841Motley Corr. (1889) I. iv. 93 From the library you reach the ante-chamber, thus completing the giro of one of the prettiest houses in St. Petersburg. 1880Geo. Eliot Let. 9 June in Life (1884) III. 357 Afterwards we have a giro in our gondola.
▪ II. giro2|ˈdʒaɪrəʊ|
[G., a. It. giro circulation (of money).]
1. A system whereby credits are transferred between banks, post offices, etc.; spec. a system operated by the British Post Office for the banking and transfer of money. Freq. attrib.
1896P. des Essars in Hist. Banking III. ix. 384 Germany has a slight advantage arising from the fact that in that country cheques and transfers (giro accounts) are more in use than in France and Belgium. 1896R. Van der Borght Ibid. IV. iii. i. 199 It will be perceived that the Amsterdam Bank was originally a bank of deposit and ‘giro’, in the primary sense of the word. 1907Westm. Gaz. 17 Sept. 10/2 Invoices, note headings, &c., bearing in the the corner the words ‘Reichsbank Giro-konto’, indicate to all that accounts due to that firm may be paid to their credit by cash or transfer (i.e., Giro) at any branch of the Reichsbank. 1930Economist 27 Sept. 562/1 Other suggestions are concerned with the increased use of cheques, post-office banking facilities, giro transfers, clearings, etc. 1959Rep. Comm. Working Monetary System xi. 331 in Parl. Papers 1958–9 (Cmnd. 827) XVII. 389 The method of operation of a ‘giro’ operated by the post office is very briefly as follows. 1961Daily Tel. 10 May 15/8 To provide a simple method for transferring payments a ‘Giro’ system, similar to that used in some continental countries, may soon be introduced by the Post Office, Mr Bevins, Postmaster-General, said yesterday. 1963Economist 29 June 1375/1 On the Continent nearly all letter heads and invoices carry a giro number. 1968Listener 22 Aug. 255/1 The Post Office Giro..will probably open in the first week of October. Basically, the Giro banks money for you, which you can draw out for yourself, or which you can instruct the Giro to transfer to other people.
2. giro cheque, order: a cheque or money order issued through the giro system; in Great Britain, used for (and therefore esp. associated with) social security payments. Also ellipt., as giro.
1972Banker May 661 (table) Crossed giro cheques. 1975Economist 9 Aug. (Brit. Banking Survey Suppl.) 42/1 If the retailer then uses giro cheques to pay his supplier he can become completely reliant on giro. 1976Southern Even. Echo (Southampton) 11 Nov. 14/4 A 31-year-old woman told the Department of Health and Social Security she had not received her giro cheque. 1976Weekend Echo (Liverpool) 4/5 Dec. 4/8 Police were informed when a 22-years-old man presented an altered giro order at a post office. 1981Sunday Times 12 July 54 If it's a Wednesday I check straight away that I've got my Giro.—A. Benson, unemployed. 1982Times 27 Jan. 2/3 Fraud involving girocheques sent through the Post Office for payment of social security benefits is ‘extremely prevalent’. 1983J. Kelman Not, not while Giro 200 All I'm fucking asking is regular giros and punctual counter clerks. 1985Telegraph & Argus (Bradford) 25 May 6/4 Take {pstlg}27 a fortnight out of a giro for {pstlg}45 or {pstlg}50 and you're not left with much. |