bill of exchange
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A Dunlap broadside, along with a Yiddish-language letter and a bill of exchange, was sent overseas by the Jewish merchant Jonas Phillips to a relative in Amsterdam.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025
Richard Smith, freshly arrived from England, comes bearing a formidable bill of exchange, requiring that the town bank hand over the fabulous amount of one thousand pounds sterling.
From Slate • Dec. 13, 2017
A "forcible bill of exchange" for all credit sales, costing up to $200 on a transaction involving $50,000, would yield another $1,000,000, and a 5% tax on capital leaving the island $1,100,000 more.
From Time Magazine Archive
When one bank refused to give him further loans, he would "cash" another bill of exchange with another bank and repay the loan at the first.
From Time Magazine Archive
Exchange, in commerce, that species of transactions by which the debts of individuals residing at a distance are cancelled by order, draft, or bill of exchange, without the transmission of specie.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various
