IOU
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Essentially, you borrow from the account and create an IOU to yourself.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 14, 2026
Credit is the promise to pay money, an IOU.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
If the IOU isn’t redeemed in good time, the players have a problem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
A bond is essentially an IOU - in return for an investor buying the bond and lending money, governments pay interest.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2025
It seemed small of me to be so unhappy when he’d done so much for me, but the IOU had been a bitter surprise.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
Then there were my friends who were saying, “Yeah I’ll loan you money on an I.O.U., but I don’t have that much money.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2023
Her contributions are a gift, not fulfillment of an I.O.U.
From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2022
He bought homes for poor families and carried in his wallet a $1,500 I.O.U. from Ralph Guldahl, to whom Sam had staked a loan when Guldahl was struggling.
From Golf Digest ● Jul. 8, 2019
At his office, Tomlin talked me through part of his reading of the London I.O.U., drawing, as if unconsciously, on a scrap of paper as he did so.
From The New Yorker ● May 1, 2017
Also, an I.O.U. for the new Luis Alberti record when we next go to the capital.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
