sight draft
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sight draft
An Americanism dating back to 1840–50
Example Sentences
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I will draw a sight draft on my grandfather, I said.
From Literature
For, of all overdue debts in this world of varied indebtedness, the hardest by a million-fold to pay are the sight drafts of defunct sentiment.
From Project Gutenberg
The sight draft Check.—A check is a written order on a bank, signed by a depositor, directing the bank to pay a certain person a certain sum of money.
From Project Gutenberg
Sometimes you can get settlement by means of a sight draft.
From Project Gutenberg
Credits are intrinsically sound and in ordinary periods are usually regulated with foreign countries by purchase at ninety, or one hundred-and-twenty days' sight drafts.
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