cheque

«cheque» in Mova's school dictionary: A printed paper form you write on to tell your bank to… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a cheque, cheques)

meaning for a pupil

1) (UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, NZ) A printed paper form you write on to tell your bank to pay money from your account to someone. tree →

2) (US spelling: check) The same thing. tree →

sense in the lessons

In money lessons a cheque is an older way of paying: you write the amount in figures and words and sign it. Many people now use cards and phone payments instead, but grandparents still post cheques for birthdays. Phrases: «write a cheque», «pay by cheque», «cash a cheque», «a blank cheque» (permission to spend anything).

examples

• Grandma sent me a cheque for my birthday. tree →
• You write the amount in words and numbers on a cheque. tree →
• Dad paid in the cheque at the bank. tree →
• Hardly any shops take cheques now. tree →
• The charity got a giant cheque for £1,000. tree →
• Don't sign a blank cheque — anyone could fill in the amount. tree →

note

UK spelling cheque, US spelling check; same sound as «check». In the USA «check» also means the bill in a restaurant. Countable.

In the corpora

• A cheque is a written note telling your bank to pay someone; few people use cheques now.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cheque» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.