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
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
I've got in my pocket a bill of exchange drawn by us on Mr. Sutton and endorsed by him, for thirty pounds, payable in three months.
From Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
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