单词 | post-note |
释义 | post-noten. U.S. Now historical. A note issued by a bank or banking association, payable to order at a future specified date (rather than to the bearer on demand), and designed as part of the bank's circulating medium.Issued by the banks in some states, esp. during the period from 1781 to the passing of the National Bank Act of 1863. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > [noun] > a banknote bank bill1682 bill1682 note1695 money bill1713 banknote1759 post-note1788 screen1789 stiff1823 flimsy1824 shin-plaster1824 billet1837 pennif1862 toadskin1867 currency note1891 dead president1944 1788 C. Biddle Let. 16 Oct. in G. Washington Papers (1987) Presidential Ser. I. 48 As I presume it was a post Note (payable Certain Days after Date) it may [be] traced or Stopped at Bank if you have the Number. 1807 Statutes of Connecticut (1808) I. 98 Be it enacted... That the several incorporated banks in this state be..authorized to issue post-notes, payable to order and at a time subsequent to the issuing of the same. 1839 C. Raguet Currency & Banking 112 (note) The banks of New York are prohibited from issuing post-notes. 1862 Merchants' Mag. Dec. 509 The Treasury had become a bank of deposit and of circulation for irredeemable paper money, and could issue one-year certificates, answering to old United States Bank ‘post notes’, without stint or limit. 1896 H. White Money & Banking 368 Some of the States had laws forbidding the issue of post notes, but they were evaded by the device of lending notes on [certain conditions]. 1912 T. Dreiser Financier 20 Steemberger..used to come to the elder Cowperwood's bank..with..post-notes of the United States Bank in denominations of one thousand, five thousand, and ten thousand dollars. 1998 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 58 543 Banks survived and thrived because they helped individual businesspersons maintain their liquidity by turning receivables into cash. They helped them make a variety of remittances by draft, note, postnote, or check. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1788 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。