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
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
Italian merchants of the 14th century, for example, rather than the bureaucrats of China, devised the essential principles of accounting like double-entry bookkeeping and such financial devices as the bill of exchange and limited liability.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most of them lived before the day of the bill of exchange, and when the solid old method of carrying specie in the hold was the familiar business practice.
From The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Butterworth, Hezekiah
