"banker's draught" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: banker's draughts [plural], bankers' draughts [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|s|bankers' draughts}} banker's draught (plural banker's draughts or bankers' draughts)
  1. (UK) Alternative spelling of banker's draft Tags: UK, alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: banker's draft Synonyms: cashier's check [US]
    Sense id: en-banker's_draught-en-noun-~3iCKMcu Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1786, The Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, page 34:",
          "text": "The ſeſſions ended at the Old Bailey, when twelve convicts received ſentence of death, among whom was Samuel Burt, for the forgery of a banker's draught of 100l. who had been recommended to mercy by the jury, his conduct having evinced ſome degree of inſanity.",
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          "ref": "1814, David Hume, Supplemental Notes to Mr. Hume's Commentaries on the Law of Scotland Respecting Crimes, page 12:",
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        {
          "ref": "1901, Herapath's Railway Journal, page 470:",
          "text": "[...] accept, draw, or endorse any promissory note, bill of exchange, banker's draught, cheque, dividend warrant, or other such like instrument; and any such instrument shall be signed, accepted, drawn, or endorsed by such person or persons as the board shall from time to time appoint for that purpose.",
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          "ref": "2009, Aran Lewis, Donkey, page 221:",
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