Definition of Bank note

1. Noun. A piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank). "He peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes"


Lexicographical Neighbors of Bank Note

bank examiner
bank failure
bank gravel
bank guard
bank holding company
bank holiday
bank identification number
bank line
bank loan
bank machine
bank machines
bank manager
bank martin
bank mix
bank night
bank note (current term)
bank of issue
bank on
bank paper
bank pool
bank rate
bank robber
bank robbers
bank run
bank shot
bank statement
bank statements
bank swallow
bank transfer
bank transfers

Literary usage of Bank note

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1883)
"Even fifteen per cent, and no troublesome enquiries could not bring about the restoration to a disconsolate London shopkeeper of a bank-note, which was lost ..."

2. Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political by John Joseph Lalor (1883)
"In order that the bank note shall remain a bunk note, no conjunct tion of ... Everything depends upon this one thing: the acceptance of the bank note must ..."

3. Principles of Political Economy by Charles Gide (1902)
"The Differences between the bank note and Paper Money. ... Both of them stand for money ; but the bank note possesses three charactistics, ..."

4. A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and by Sir John Barnard Byles, Maurice Barnard Byles (1891)
"A bank note is a promissory note, made by a banker, payable to bearer on demand, ... The term bank note is sometimes used indiscriminately for the note of a ..."

5. The Yale Review by Yale University, George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross (1903)
"THE CENTRALIZATION OF BANK-NOTE ISSUES IN SWEDEN. IN England and in Germany, the laws relating to the issue of circulating notes aim at the ultimate ..."

6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"BR—Trover for a bank note оГ 500/. At the trial, before Lord Kenyan CJ at ... 633, and other cases, that prima facie the hearer ofa bank note was entitled ..."

7. The Great industries of the United States: being an historical summary of by Horace Greeley (1873)
"THE earlier specimens of bank note engraving, as compared with the ... And yet this fairly amazing advance in bank note engraving is exhibited — as the ..."

8. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1874)
"It will be seen that while the exports and imports in 1844 were about three times the amount of the bank note currency, in 1872 they were fully fourteen ..."

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