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Banknote

noun

A piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank). Synonyms: bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, bill, Federal Reserve note, government note, greenback, note.

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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

Words linked to "Banknote" : bank note, fifty, five dollar bill, fifty dollar bill, dollar bill, silver certificate, ten dollar bill, five-spot, twenty dollar bill, bill, clam, folding money, dollar, hundred dollar bill, tenner, c-note, twenty, two dollar bill, one dollar bill, buck, paper money, paper currency, fiver