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/prˈɑməsˌɔri noʊt/ Listen

Promissory note

noun

A promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time. Synonyms: note, note of hand.

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... the stable at seven shillings and sixpence a-night, his own bill varies from six to eight pounds per diem, and at the end of a fortnight my settler is called upon to hand over a cheque upon his banker to the tune of a hundred pounds, or, if he has no bank-account, his promissory note at a very short date. Away starts the settler back to his solitude; he has given his bill, and he thinks no more about it; but the bill finds its way quickly into the hands of an attorney, and in eight days there is an execution out for recovery, with an addition of ten pounds already incurred ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 • Various

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... well-known heavyweight like you can place his order with any of the local brokers without having to put up a single cent; at the most they might ask you for five thousand or ten thousand dollars. But they know you're good for any engagement you may make; they'd be tickled to death to have your promissory note. I suggest that you get in touch with a sound brokerage house in this city—one that is a member of the New York Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade—and sell, for my account, two hundred and fifty thousand bushels of December wheat ...

— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne

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Words linked to "Promissory note" : note receivable, IOU, note payable, demand note, obligation, municipal note, certificate of indebtedness, note, note of hand, time note, debt instrument