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cheque, check Banking.|tʃɛk|
[Cheque is a differentiated spelling of check, which is also in use, especially in U.S. In meaning it belongs to check n.1 sense 13. Cf. also check v.1 sense 16. From being the name of the counterfoil of an Exchequer or other bill, the purpose of which was to check forgery or alteration, the name appears to have been applied to any bill, note, or draft, having a counterfoil, and thus to its present sense, where a counterfoil (though usual) is not even necessary.]
†1. The counterfoil of a bank bill, draft, etc. Obs.
1706Act 5 Anne c. 13 [Enacts that Exchequer Bills be made henceforth with two counterfoils instead of one, and] That the said Governor and Company [of Bk. of Eng.] shall..have the use and custody of the one part of all and euery the Checques, Indents, or Counterfoyls of all such Exchequer Bills..and from which the same Exchequer Bills shall be cut. 1708Act 7 Anne c. 7 Such part of the said Cheques, Indents, or Counterfoils as shall relate to the Bills so discharged or cancelled..shall be delivered back into the Receipt of Her Majesties Exchequer by the said Governor and Company. [Cf. Mr. A. W. Chisholm's Return to Ho. of Commons, ordered 11 May 1857, on National Debt.] 1755Johnson, Check, the correspondent cipher of a bank bill. 1774–82Barclay Dict., Check..a counter-cypher of a bank bill; an account kept privately to examine that which is kept with a banker, or public office.
Hence checque-note, a ‘note’ having a counterfoil.
1721Minutes of Court of Bank of England 4 Jan., The affidavit of John Jocelyn of..relating to a checque note for a Dividend Warrant on Bank Stock pawned.
2. A draft form having a counterfoil. Obs.
1717Minutes of Court of Bank of Eng. 24 Oct., Ordered..that Mr. Woolhead desire all persons who keep accounts by Drawn Notes to use cheques, who do not at present. 1765Ibid. 19 Dec., Ordered that no cheques be delivered but to Persons keeping Cash with the Bank, or to their order in writing, or to their known servant, bringing with him the Bank Book; and that the servant be desired to write his Master's name and his own in a leaf of the Cheque Book, against the number of cheques delivered him, and that the Bank Officer do write the number of the said cheques with the day when delivered signed with his own name in a spare leafe of their Bank Books..That the name and place of abode of every person demanding payment of Bank Draughts be wrote on the Back thereof before the Draughts be paid. 1832in Lawson Hist. Banking (1850) 186 Cheques are given out in books, and not in sheets as heretofore.
This was apparently the sense in which Tucker used checked paper (which could not mean chequered or patterned paper, as none such was ever used by the Bank of Eng.):
1765Tucker Lt. Nat. I. Gen. Good, If I have an account with the Bank of England, and..should I chance on some distant journey to be reduced low in pocket, if I have no checked paper along with me, I cannot draw for a single sixpence.
3. a. A written order (on a printed form or otherwise) to a banker by a person having money in the banker's hands, directing him to pay, on presentation, to bearer or to a person named the sum of money stated therein (called in Bank of England books 1717 a Drawn Note). blank cheque: (usually) a cheque signed by the drawer, but with the amount left blank to be filled up by the person to whom it is given.
Quot. 1774 may possibly belong to 1, or 2.
1774Foote Cozeners iii. i, A draft! A draft on his banker, I reckon..Let me see. What is the tote? A hundred and ninety two pounds, six and—Oh! here he is, I suppose with the check. 1803Ann. Rev. I. 384/1 The clerks of government might pay to the several stock-holders their interest money in checques, as they are called, or drafts to bearer on some banker. 1818Todd, ‘Check, the corresponding cipher of a bank bill’ [J.] This word is often corruptly used for the draft itself of the person on his banker. 1823Galt Entail xcii, Milrookit gave a cheque for two hundred pounds, and retired grumbling. 1832Babbage Econ. Manuf. xiv. (ed. 3) 126 All payments are made, through written orders called checks. 1845McCulloch Taxation ii. vi. (1852) 295 It has also been proposed to subject all checks drawn on bankers to a uniform stamp-duty of 1d. or 2d. 1858Dickens Lett. (1880) II. 46, I have safely received your cheque this morning. 1880Standard 11 Dec., The Paris ‘cheque’ [i.e. bill of exchange on demand] is maintained at 25.32½. 1886W. A. Croffat Vanderbilts xiii, ‘Ten thousand dollars’..He drew his check for it and handed it to her. 1932Weseen Words Confused 38 A cheque is ‘a written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated’. How then can there be a blank cheque? 1940O. Jespersen Split Infin. 165 He carried a blank cheque in case he should want cash.
b. fig. in various uses. to give a blank cheque to: nearly = to give carte blanche to.
a1849H. Coleridge Poems II. 376 Sense is only fraught With cheques and tokens taken upon trust. 1881Boyd Dawkins in Nature XXIII. 309 He is drawing a cheque on our credulity which is not likely to be honoured. 1884G. J. Goschen in Parlt. 19 Feb. (Hansard, Ser. iii. CCLXXXIV. 1420), I have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to give a political blank cheque to Lord Salisbury.
c. A total of money received.
1947P. Newton Wayleggo (1949) 153 A musterer is usually paid by cheque at the end of the season, and refers to his pay as his cheque. 1958Listener 18 Sept. 407/1 The thirty-five per cent. drop in wool prices last season was not reflected fully in the year's wool cheque.
4. attrib. and Comb., as cheque clerk; cheque-book, formerly, a book in which the Bank kept a register of ‘cheques’, i.e. draft forms, issued to its customers (see quot. 1765 in 2); now, a book containing engraved cheque forms with their counterfoils, supplied by a bank to its customers; also attrib. or quasi-adj.; cheque card = cheque guarantee card below; cheque end, an ornamental device on the perforated edge of a cheque, money order, etc., as a safeguard against fraud; cheque guarantee card, a numbered identity card issued by a bank to a cheque-account customer, guaranteeing payment up to a specified sum to the payees of cheques drawn by the cardholder, and also enabling the cardholder to encash cheques at branches of the bank other than the one at which the account is held; cf. banker's card s.v. banker2 1 c; cheque guard (see quot.).
1848Thackeray Van. Fair xiii, I've shown my gratitude to Sedley..as my *cheque-book can show. 1853Reade Chr. Johnstone 26 His Lordship began to feel for a checque-book. 1882T. Mozley Remin. Ser. i. I. xxi, Some people leave everything about; their cheque-books wide open; their tradesmen's urgent reminders. 1919J. L. Garvin Econ. Found. Peace xv. 365 Their cheque-book philosophy..their insistence on the peace of profit instead of the peace of justice. 1963New Statesman 24 May 786/1 Newspapers..should..come to a self-denying ordinance to abandon the cheque-book journalism of confession stories by criminals, prominent divorcees and others who have won notoriety.
1966Times 18 Jan. 10/3 The Midland Bank..is planning to introduce a ‘*cheque card’ service early in March. 1986Financial Times 2 Aug. (Weekend Suppl.) p. v/1 The warning..to keep your cheque book separate from cheque card, cashpoint card or credit card has never been more relevant.
1908Westm. Gaz. 29 Sept. 8/2 He presented a cheque for {pstlg}1,000 to the *cheque clerk, who examined the balance and initialled the cheque.
1879Print. Trades Jrnl. xxviii. 16 A new method for the prevention of *cheque frauds.
1968Business Week 13 Jan. 69/3 ‘*Check guarantee’ cards. 1975Economist 29 Nov. 86/1 Giro..will be authorised to provide other banking services such as credit cards, cheque guarantee cards and bridging loans. 1985Which? Feb. 52/2 Like the other three societies..they can't offer you a cheque guarantee card.
a1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., *Check Guard, a means of preventing tampering with bank checks, raising the figures, etc. |