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/bˈæŋknˌoʊt/ Listen

noun

bank note, banknote n.

A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to the bearer on demand. See also sense 4. Note: In the United States popularly called a bank bill.

Formerly, a promissory note made by a banker, or banking company, payable to a specified person at a fixed date; a bank bill. See Bank bill, 2. (Obs.)

A promissory note payable at a bank.

A promissory note issued by an authorized bank, payable to the bearer on demand and intended to circulate as government-authorized money; in the United States such notes may only be issued by a Federal Reserve Bank; as, he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty banknotes.

Synonyms: bill, note, government note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, Federal Reserve note, greenback.

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Etymology of 'Banknote'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Banknote" Quotes from Famous Books

... and my banknote Joliet determined to have a fixed residence. He succeeded of course. The walls, the windows, the doors, everything but the garden-patch, he ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII, No. 29. August, 1873. • Various

... old trick, of course; but in simplicity lay success. Podmore had purchased those two identical imitation-leather satchels some days ago. In one he had placed the package of brown paper, cut to banknote size and held by rubber bands, and in a certain position on the outside of the satchel he had scratched a triangular identification mark with his pocket-knife; the other tan satchel he had delivered to the Alderson Construction Company's office. There it had received ...

— Every Man for Himself • Hopkins Moorhouse

... them he knew were playing high on that gambling-table kept open all day long at the Bourse, or in private houses at the clubs, and anywhere and everywhere in Paris; but not one of these men could spare a banknote to save an intimate. There was no help for it—Chesnel must be ruined. ...

— The Collection of Antiquities • Honore de Balzac