Definition of 'cheque'
Word forms: plural cheques
regional note: in AM, use check
2. See also blank cheque, traveller's cheque
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cheque in British English
noun
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C18: from check, in the sense: a means of verification
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cheque in American English
noun
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cheque in American English
(tʃek)
noun
Brit check1 (sense 29)
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cheque
British English: cheque
/tʃɛk/ NOUN
A cheque is a printed form on which you write an amount of money and say who it is to be paid to. Your bank then pays the money to that person from your account.
He wrote them a cheque.
- American English: check /tˈʃɛk/ money
- Arabic: شِيك
- Brazilian Portuguese: cheque
- Chinese: 支票
- Croatian: ček
- Czech: šek
- Danish: check
- Dutch: cheque
- European Spanish: cheque
- Finnish: sekki
- French: chèque
- German: Scheck
- Greek: επιταγή
- Italian: assegno
- Japanese: 小切手
- Korean: 수표
- Norwegian: sjekk betalingsmiddel
- Polish: czek
- European Portuguese: cheque
- Romanian: cec
- Russian: чек
- Latin American Spanish: cheque
- Swedish: check betalningsmedel
- Thai: ใบสั่งจ่ายเช็ค
- Turkish: çek
- Ukrainian: чек
- Vietnamese: séc
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