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/bˈæŋknˌoʊt/ Listen

noun

bank note, banknote n.

A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to the bearer on demand. See also sense 4. Note: In the United States popularly called a bank bill.

Formerly, a promissory note made by a banker, or banking company, payable to a specified person at a fixed date; a bank bill. See Bank bill, 2. (Obs.)

A promissory note payable at a bank.

A promissory note issued by an authorized bank, payable to the bearer on demand and intended to circulate as government-authorized money; in the United States such notes may only be issued by a Federal Reserve Bank; as, he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty banknotes.

Synonyms: bill, note, government note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, Federal Reserve note, greenback.

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"Banknote" Quotes from Famous Books

... there were still gipsies who were summoned to the castle to make sport for the noble lord. They played their bewitching melodies, and if he was filled with genuine delight, he gave the fiddlers, right and left, an enthusiastic slap in the face which echoed noisily, then took a banknote from his pocket-book, spit upon it and clapped it on the swollen cheeks of the howling gipsies, whereupon they again grinned joyfully and played ...

— How Women Love - (Soul Analysis) • Max Simon Nordau

... some report on his desk which he'd been frowning at, nodded to his field man and said, "Sit down, Lawrence. I'll be with you in a minute. Please take a look at this while you're waiting." He handed over a banknote. ...

— Status Quo • Dallas McCord Reynolds

... good reason to believe it was hidden there!" replied Sandy. "We found a burned ten-dollar banknote there just after a dynamite explosion ...

— The Call of the Beaver Patrol - or, A Break in the Glacier • V. T. Sherman

... liberally. The Doctor gave a cork-screw; the Senator, a bladeless knife; Dick, an old lottery ticket; Buttons, a candle-stump; Mr. Figgs, a wild-cat banknote. After which they all hurried away on ...

— The Dodge Club - or, Italy in 1859 • James De Mille

... old trick, of course; but in simplicity lay success. Podmore had purchased those two identical imitation-leather satchels some days ago. In one he had placed the package of brown paper, cut to banknote size and held by rubber bands, and in a certain position on the outside of the satchel he had scratched a triangular identification mark with his pocket-knife; the other tan satchel he had delivered to the Alderson Construction Company's office. There it had received ...

— Every Man for Himself • Hopkins Moorhouse