bills of exchange
Example Sentences
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An increasingly international network of financiers had created their own private money – of IOUs or bills of exchange – which allowed them to abandon sovereigns' money altogether.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2013
For example, bills of exchange established exchange rates between different coinage systems.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
Baker, it turned out, had forged the signatures of Docker and Mann to the bills of exchange.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Würtemberg, all those having the right to draw bills of exchange were exempted from them in 1839.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher
The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
