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
A book in which a person keeps an account of his notes, bills, bills of exchange, etc., thus showing all that he issues and receives.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
The signers of bills of exchange who use this ink are of course freed from all obligations in the same length of time.
