cheque
English[edit]

Etymology[edit]
A variant of check influenced in spelling by exchequer.
Pronunciation[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- check (US)
Noun[edit]
cheque (plural cheques)
- (Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, UK) A draft directing a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.
- I was not carrying cash, so I wrote a cheque for the amount.
- 1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, 1920, page 62,
- They do not, however, all deal with the same banker, and when A gives a cheque to B, B usually pays it not into the same but into some other bank.
- 1999, Sam Seunarine, Office Procedures for the Caribbean, 2nd edition, reprinted 2001, page 126,
- Sometimes abbreviations are used (which would be explained on the statement) and only the last three figures of the cheque number may be given. ‘Sundries’ are cash or cheques paid into the account.
- 2007, Eric Tyson, Tony Martin, Personal Finance for Canadians for Dummies, unnumbered page,
- You can avoid dealing with paper cheques — written or printed — by paying your bills online.
- 2009, R. Rajesh, T. Sivagnanasithi, Banking Theory Law & Practice, Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, page 206,
- The daily cheque clearings began around 1770 when bank clerks met at the Five Bells (a tavern in Lombard Street in the City of London) to exchange all their cheques in one place and settle the balances in cash.
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Albanian: çek
- → Amharic: ቼክ (ček)
- → Arabic: شِيك (šēk, šīk)
- → Gulf Arabic: چيك (cek)
- → Armenian: չեկ (čʿek)
- → Asturian: cheque
- → Azerbaijani: çek
- → Belarusian: чэк (ček)
- → Bengali: চেক (cek)
- → Breton: chekenn
- → Bulgarian: чек (ček)
- → Burmese: ချက် (hkyak)
- → Catalan: xec
- → Czech: šek
- → Danish: check
- → Dutch: cheque
- → Estonian: tšekk
- → Finnish: sekki, šekki, shekki
- → French: chèque
- → Galician: cheque
- → Georgian: ჩეკი (čeḳi)
- → German: Scheck
- → Hebrew: צֵ׳ק (chéq), שֵׁיְק (shéq)
- → Hindi: चेक (cek)
- → Hungarian: csekk
- → Icelandic: tékki
- → Irish: seic
- → Kazakh: чек (çek)
- → Kyrgyz: чек (çek)
- → Lao: ເຊັກ (sek)
- → Latvian: čeks
- → Lithuanian: čekis
- → Macedonian: чек (ček)
- → Malay: cek
- Indonesian: cek
- → Marathi: चेक (cek)
- → Mongolian: чек (chek)
- → Norman: chèque
- → Northern Kurdish: çek
- → Norwegian: sjekk
- → Occitan: chèc
- → Persian: چک (ček)
- → Polish: czek
- → Portuguese: cheque
- → Romanian: cec
- → Russian: чек (ček)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Slovak: šek
- → Slovene: ček
- → Spanish: cheque
- → Swahili: cheki
- → Swedish: check
- → Tajik: чек (ček)
- → Telugu: చెక్కు (cekku)
- → Thai: เช็ค (chék)
- → Turkish: çek
- → Turkmen: çek
- → Ukrainian: чек (ček)
- → Urdu: چیک (cek)
- → Uzbek: chek
- → Vietnamese: séc
- → Welsh: siec
Translations[edit]
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Further reading[edit]
References[edit]
- Michael Quinion (2004), “Cheque”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, →ISBN.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “check”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Asturian[edit]
Noun[edit]
cheque m (plural cheques)
- cheque (a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity)
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English cheque, from Middle English chek, borrowed from Old French eschec, from Medieval Latin scaccus, from Arabic شَاه (šāh), borrowed from Persian شاه (šâh, “king”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cheque m (plural cheques, diminutive chequeje n)
- check, cheque (a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity)
- voucher, used to pay a stated amount for a specific purpose.
Derived terms[edit]
- vouchers
Related terms[edit]
Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
cheque m (plural cheques)
Derived terms[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
cheque
- Alternative form of chek
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English cheque, from Old French eschec, from Medieval Latin scaccus, from Arabic شَاه (šāh), from Persian شاه (šâh, “king”), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (šāh), from Old Persian 𐏋 (xšāyaθiya, “king”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ksayati (“he rules, he has power over”), from Proto-Indo-European *tke- (“to gain power over, gain control over”). Cognate of xeque.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cheque m (plural cheques)
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From English cheque. Doublet of jaque.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cheque m (plural cheques)
Derived terms[edit]
Adverb[edit]
cheque
Verb[edit]
cheque
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of checar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of checar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of checar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of checar.
Further reading[edit]
- “cheque”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- es:Banking