How To Use Cheque In A Sentence

Have you got any ID? A driving licence or cheque card will do.
Very wealthy people don't like to be questioned about whether they can support a cheque. Times, Sunday Times
The war-time legacy of the five-shilling legal maximum on restaurant bills was an open cheque for profiteers to pose as restaurateurs.
And here ... sign this blank cheque for what you owe.
You can then pay bills immediately, using a separate chequebook, even if it means that you slip into the red.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer appears to have carried the Cabinet in his opposition to such a step.
There will be a representative from Crumlin Hospital attending the function to accept the cheque.
He perceived they were entering the great theatre of his first appearance, the great theatre he had last seen as a chequer-work of glare and blackness in his flight from the red police. When the Sleeper Wakes
Is it OK if I post you the cheque next week?
His personal life has been chequered. Times, Sunday Times
If this were not so, everything would look flat, and then one could distinguish nothing save only a chequerwork of colours. Albert Durer
He has on the back of his stone a shield with nine rows of chequers; over the top of the shield is a mascle between two keys fesswise, bits inwards and downwards.
One widow, she said, was carrying around $900,000 in uncashed cheques; another confessed to spending $15,000 on designer clothes.
Criticisms were made that the decision to honour or dishonour cheques was no longer made by experienced bankers with the necessary skills, but passed on to less experienced bank staff to cut costs and save time.
I hope this cheque doesn't bounce.
The Bank dishonoured a number of cheques drawn by its client and sent a fax contending that his debit balance was in excess of his facility.
My mother has never paid a bill, written a cheque or drawn money from the bank in her life.
The fee cap doesn't cover non-government cheques such as a paycheque. Canada.com
Although he apparently waited for confirmation from his bank that the cheque had cleared before making the payments, he was subsequently advised that the cheque was fraudulent and had been dishonoured.
Any manager can go out and buy a player for 20 million if they've got an open chequebook. Times, Sunday Times
The cheque took 11 days to arrive and the letter blamed human error for the delay in sending a replacement. Times, Sunday Times
In short, this Budget, which did not correspond with the magniloquent speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, could not stand.
The promised payments were not made, and post-dated cheques were dishonoured.
It''s the biggest thing to happen in The Land Cod Forgot since the invention of the pogey cheque - Newfoundland''s native son Brad Gushue will represent Canada in curling at the 2006 Olympics in Turin," he wrote. Archive 2006-03-01
Neither the drawer of the cheque nor the original payee consented to the alteration of the payee.
A bank cannot refuse to cash banker's draft, whereas it can refuse to cash a cheque.
Workers spent their cheques on fiery spirits or shypoo.
You can pay by cheque, assuming of course you have a valid cheque card.
Baroness Thatcher survived by taking 20-minute catnaps - a 'zizz', she called it - in the day and catching up on sleep at weekends at Chequers. Home | Mail Online
All too often, dividend cheques are just deposited into our bank accounts and spent.
Cut out the coupon and send those cheques off today.
Few of the studios' prime big-budget offerings these days are reliant on glamorous big-paycheque names. Times, Sunday Times
The credit card eliminates the need for cash or cheques.
Clearly, the absence of cheque guarantee cards limited the value of the cheque book facility.
But the licensing authority has reported her to the police, making it impossible to send in a post-dated cheque. Times, Sunday Times
He handed out a cheque for ￡500 from the drawer and gave it to me.
She had crossed this road before, deftly robbing Peter to slip a rubber cheque into Paul's back pocket.
She banks a 10,000 cheque for herself instead of paying it into the business account. The Sun
Moreover the chancellor of the exchequer saw before him an inevitable addition of ten millions of pounds sterling to his budget, the only avowable reason for which was the rectification of the Canadian frontier. Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII
The Chancellor of the Exchequer will take the floor for his Budget speech at 3.00 p.m.
Very wealthy people don't like to be questioned about whether they can support a cheque. Times, Sunday Times
Send a cheque for ￡18.99 plus ￡2 for postage and packing.
He asks a hotelier if he will accept the cheque in payment of a bill for ￡15.
My chequer tolled me sew. posted by Heo at 6:27 AM Friday (-ish) Poetry Blogging: 100th Post Edition
You might also note that the Gov is determined to hand over the reins of the NHS chequebook to a bunch of seld-employed, overpaid, medical freemasons ( GPs) As far as the other "services" are concerned ( Army etc ) they're a complete law unto themselves. Policing and surveillance: The inspector calls | Editorial
In recent years, a substantial proportion of grants have remained unspent and recouped by the Exchequer.
There are no difficulties if the post-dated cheque is paid on or after the specified date, or even if it is paid before then and the customer does not object.
All Canadian cheques should conform with the new specifications.
But many more, companies and individuals, sign cheques without which our cultural life would be drearier. Times, Sunday Times
His was one of two required signatures on the cheque.
The days of big cheque books and wine and roses and players who are up in that league are gone.
Please send a cheque with written confirmation of your booking.
I just wrote the cheque for the Professional Legal Studies course.
Police have so far been unable to trace the white Conway trailer, but a cheque from the Donnes has gone some way to lifting the youngster's spirits.
His scheme was revealed as he allegedly attempted to transfer $80 million in funds from legitimate accounts into accounts he controlled using fraudulent wire transfers and counterfeit cheques.
In advanced economies the cheque and associated electronic transfer techniques have become the chief means of payment in the business world.
By the time the cheque has been banked, the PO box has closed and the ‘company’ has moved on.
Will he open his chequebook for a pair of new centre backs? Times, Sunday Times
In advanced economies the cheque and associated electronic transfer techniques have become the chief means of payment in the business world.
His club said that it would take disciplinary action against the player, who already has a chequered record. Times, Sunday Times
They can often be seen noshing there as a perspiring Stanley picks up their cheques.
For his troubles, and no doubt a substantial pay cheque, Eric the King picked up the winning trophy and, for his most-valuable-player display, he was presented with an all-inclusive holiday to Portugal.
The bank had no mandate to honour the cheque.
But the cheque was dishonoured by the bank concerned.
I have no cash on me may I pay by cheque?
That, we respectfully submit, relates directly to a depredation upon the exchequer of the Commonwealth.
The civilian employer with a member of the royal family on its payroll has a chequered safety record. Times, Sunday Times
I go to the counter and give the cheque to a guy who definitely did not have enough sleep last night and was in a mood for nasty snide remarks and evil glares.
Stephen Benson accepted the cheque on behalf of the hospice.
Don't expect him to wave his chequebook any time soon. Times, Sunday Times
He was effectively granted a blank cheque to conduct a war without Congressional authorization for up to 90 days.
Or, perchance, mystery and importance have been found, during his long and varied experience with the unsophisticated tourist, excellent things to increase the volume of importance attached to the exhibited articles, and the volume of "pice" in his exchequer. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
Back then, he had a relatively big chequebook compared to most other Premiership clubs. The Sun
Only the treasurer has authority to sign cheques.
The press has done a public service exposing this government's fondness for spin, rich businessmen and fat donation cheques.
In jurisdictions where a cheque can be backed by a guarantee card, there cannot be countermand.
Robert Walsh said he met Michael Clarke and arranged to pay him £20,000 for his services in cashing the cheques.
They will bung them cheques and put aside a sum for a deposit on a flat. Times, Sunday Times
Seven per cent confessed to assuming another person's identity through forging their signature on letters or cheques.
Indeed, its early post-war history was chequered.
We agreed a price and paid a deposit of 800 by cheque. The Sun
For surely to eat and drink one's fill from day to day and give oneself no grief at all, this is the king of gods for your wise man, but lawgivers go hang, chequering, as they do, the life of man! The Cyclops
What a coincidence he should have finally resurfaced at a time when the last cheque is due. The Sun
The current situation deprives the exchequer of income and gives overseas companies a trading advantage over UK firms that pay their taxes in full. Times, Sunday Times
You can pay the bill with a cheque if you like.
One of the least efficient ways of dealing with the deficit would be to write a large cheque to fill a hole. Times, Sunday Times
The cheques required two signatures but she often forged the names of colleagues.
There is no difference in price between paying by direct debit or quarterly cheque. Times, Sunday Times
This comfort surely is owing to me; for if life is no worse than chequer-work, I must now have a little white to come, having seen nothing but black, all unchequered dismal black, for a great, great while. Clarissa Harlowe
As he went into hiding last night details of his chequered past emerged. The Sun
New measures are needed to prevent fraudsters opening bank accounts with stolen cheques.
Very wealthy people don't like to be questioned about whether they can support a cheque. Times, Sunday Times
The agreement required him to leave three post-dated cheques with the letting agent to cover rent in advance. Times, Sunday Times
It is also sending you a cheque for 500 as a gesture of goodwill. Times, Sunday Times
The service was charming, friendly and knowledgeable and the cheque was big, though not a surprise. Times, Sunday Times
Frank starts out small, forging signatures and cheques and soon moves into a rather successful succession of fake identities and fraudulent cheques.
A pre-election survey that could result in budget surplus refund cheques creates "brilliant" political optics that could be unbeatable.
No one has ever received a long-lasting happiness from securing a larger pay cheque or from beating the traffic rush on the way home.
After a long week at a top hotel, the branding folk went home with a big hangover and a colossal cheque. Times, Sunday Times
Indeed he will be first up against the wall next time he comes to Buckinghamshire and finds the barricades up round chequers. Correcting Adam Boulton
Only the manager has the authority to sign cheques.
Yet the demands for Britain to open its chequebook more generously persist. Times, Sunday Times
He had a chequered political career spanning nearly forty years.
They will post me the tickets/post the tickets to me as soon as they receive my cheque.
Will you lend me some money to tide me over until I get my pay cheque?
Equally, employees who may have underpaid their tax can arrange to have the back tax collected each month via their pay cheque, provided they let the Revenue know by the end of the month.
Post offices accept either cash or bank guaranteed cheques according to the corporation.
The moral of this story is: only write the cheques you can cash that day.
They end up writing their own cheques. Times, Sunday Times
That's surely as discredited now as a bouncing cheque. Times, Sunday Times
Cheque which entitle the person who have it to is pay.
The Plaintiff paid $5,000 on October 30, 2000 and gave a cheque, post-dated for 45 days, for the balance of $4,194.
But there is one inescapable problem with chequebook journalism. Times, Sunday Times
In a card of this type, the issuer warrants to the payee that a cheque, drawn by the card-holder for not more than a stated maximum amount, will be paid on presentment.
The majority of financial transactions are conducted either by cheques or electronically.
Nor was "chequered" confined to square divisions, as it usually is now, but included spots of any size or shape. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare
And perhaps it may be remarked here, since we commonly say of a man in difficulties that he is "exchequered" or in "chancery," that so we probably intend to express the same, when we say a man is _hanapered_, or _hampered_. Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850
Lloyds Bank cashed a Gieves cheque for ￡27,000, the crew were paid and a crisis averted.
The software must also take account of different payment methods, allowing people to be paid by cheque, cash or giro.
A special type of case arises where the drawer of the cheque and the payee maintain their accounts with the same bank.
We went straight to the estate agent and wrote out a cheque.
You can be paid in cash weekly or by cheque monthly; those are the two alternatives.
Requirements to be met so that paid cheques do not have to be obtained from banks by public health organisations as acquittances for payment made.
But the government also asked them to pay back the tax that had been deducted from the cheque, saying they would get it back for the 2008 tax year in April 2009. 2008 January 13 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
Thankfully my brother has made some progress and has been able to write a cheque to pay off his credit bill. Times, Sunday Times
Cheques should be made payable to Country Living and your address written on the reverse.
And, you will find that paying by Switch does not restrict you to your cheque card limit.
His involvement in rescuing struggling lenders comes in spite of his chequered record during the credit crunch. Times, Sunday Times
Since the beginning of this year, some 1.3 million cheques have been issued to farmers under the various livestock headage and premium schemes.
Sight deposits are, in the main, cheque account funds while time deposits incorporate an element of withdrawal restriction, i.e. notice.
Allow time for the cheque to clear.
If the drawer closes his account with the latter bank in the meantime, the cheque will be dishonoured by that bank due to the collecting bank's dilatoriness.
What is preoccupying the council officials at the moment is where to get a fat cheque to pay the bloated workforce those salary arrears.
Ricardo reasoned that if ‘Government delayed receiving the tax for one year… it would, perhaps, be obliged to issue an Exchequer bill bearing interest, and it would pay as much for interest as the consumer would save in price.’
The team that finishes bottom will pocket a compensation cheque of ￡37,000.
Anyway, as the tumbril bearing Grant came into view, and we got shots of toothless crones in the crowd getting on with their knitting – or their modern equivalent, West Ham fans looking glum – the Hammers' latest signing, Wayne Bridge, was demonstrating that even a magic Chris Waddle cheque book might not provide an automatic solution to the club's troubles. Keegle is noble but good taste takes a tumbril | Martin Kelner
Self - service Machines include Cash Deposit Machines, Cheque Deposit Machines and Instant Balance Machines.
A crossed cheque therefore gives some protection against fraud if it falls into the wrong hands.
As we saw earlier, societies were previously inhibited in this by the fact that they could not issue cheque guarantee cards.
I have challenged this but submission of my cheque book counterfoils and the fact that several colleagues could verify that I signed and despatched the cheque are not deemed to be ‘proof of posting’.
Lucien was living from hand to mouth, spending his money as fast as he made it, like many another journalist; nor did he give so much as a thought to those periodically recurrent days of reckoning which chequer the life of the bohemian in Paris so sadly. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
My mother has never paid a bill, written a cheque or drawn money from the bank in her life.
In the popular imagination, all it takes is a wave of a chequebook and a deal is done. Times, Sunday Times
I was just about to borrow some money when bingo! - the cheque arrived.
If you would like to send a dona-tion, you can make a cheque out to Feed the Children.
One of my earlier cases was investigating a bad cheque that had been passed at a local merchant.
Some may be notes and coin but the vast bulk will come from people writing cheques drawn on bank accounts.
After half an hour of the heaviest cannonade ever known, Wellington's faithful troops were threatened by an avalanche of cavalry, and promptly fell into the "chequer" disposition previously arranged for the most exposed division, that of Alten. The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)
The bank hasn't issued me with a cheque card yet.
They are simply going through the motions for a paycheque. Globe and Mail
Please give this matter your prompt attention and make sure to stop payment of cheque No.327980.
The young prince showed, among other virtues, a disposition to frugality, which, had he lived, would soon have retrieved these losses; but as his health was declining very fast, the present emptiness of the exchequer was a sensible obstacle to the execution of those projects which the ambition of Northumberland had founded on the prospect of The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
As well, some of the cash was used to cover an overdraft of the company in the amount of $2,102.34 and the rest was paid by way of two cheques to undisclosed payees.
Even at this distance the flopping flatness of his cap, the bright brown leather at the top of his calves, and the chequering of his stockings were perceptible. The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll
The 'stupa' being constructed near Noida flyway with a crowd of statues will cost the exchequer Rs 203 crore and there was a budgetary allocation of Rs 294 crore for other parks and statues, the Mayawati government has reportedly told the Supreme Court on 21st August 2009. WN.com - Articles related to 3G spectrum bids reach $1.3 bn on 7th day of auction
The promised payments were not made, and post-dated cheques were dishonoured.
Here we marvelled at more of the chequered history of our host country involving the Byzantines, the Romans, and the Ottomans as well as the Bulgarians.
A person may, of course, hold a cheque for a much longer period than the time above mentioned and present it and receive payment, but the point that we are trying to make clear is that _the risk of holding it_ during this period _is the holder's and not the risk of the maker of the cheque_. Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)
The business just writes a cheque for child support, for the student loan, for all those bits and pieces, and the payroll agent deals with the paperwork.
The teams face hefty repair bills by the time the chequered flag flies. Times, Sunday Times
They both initialled the proposal form and they both signed the cheques for the premiums.
The party was effectively using the national exchequer for its own political purposes.
The Teller of the Exchequer acted as the state cashier.
The structure and language of the summary of contentions had some infelicities, but it was clearly enough framed on the basis that the Bank was not entitled to dishonour cheques because the limit was exceeded.
cancel cheques or tickets
Graham McLaren has edited the play into a 105-minute chamber drama, played out on a murky stage chequered with shafts of pale light.
As a hotel, though, it has a chequered history. Times, Sunday Times
You may send in your contributions in the form of cheque or draft or money orders directly addressed to.
Why else would a 12-year-old be getting cash and cheques through the post? Times, Sunday Times
Where a cheque or bill is payable to order, it must specify the identity of the payee with reasonable certainty.
Academy chairman, David Parkinson was delighted to receive the cheque and hear of the move to triennial funding.
But don't put your chequebooks away, it will be ready soon.
Don't try and stop the cheque if you want to pay online or over the phone instead.
Please enclose your signed cheque and payment slip unattached and unfolded.
Later, House of Jazz playfully lifted up the sternness of black by mixing it with psychedelic colours and black and white chequered-patterns, creating a collection that pleased especially the young generation.
The exact origins of the use of the chequered flag to end races are lost in history. Times, Sunday Times
Send a cheque for ￡18.99 plus ￡2 for postage and packing.
She attached a cheque to the order form.
Across Stirling you can see a chequerboard of more-or-less regular fields on the low ground, a landscape that is a recent creation.
To me, that's a chequered cloth spread on a grassy meadow, carefully arranged to avoid the cowpats and covered with fly-ridden curled-up sandwiches and lashings of ginger beer.
Please make cheques payable to DVD Offer. Times, Sunday Times
And as the human life is properly said to be chequerwork, no doubt but a person of her prudence will make the best of it, and set off so much good against so much bad, in order to strike as just a balance as possible. Clarissa Harlowe
None of this will stop managers urging their superiors to open the chequebook. Times, Sunday Times
Yes, and don’t look now [seriously, don't look], but a day after AIG splurged for the half mil spa trip and a week after getting $84 bil from the people of America, the corporate welfare cheque is coming in again. 2008 October 09 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
They were huge and brittle-looking, creating a chequerboard effect against the endless white of the sand.
By 2005 the ensuing renewed prosperity could be apparent, with more cash coming into the exchequer to spend.
A £10,000 cheque will be banked by Sunday's victors from the FA's prize fund with the prospect of much more to follow if Saturday's draw proves favourable.
White and Jones were also found guilty of conspiracy to defraud the council by countersigning cheques for each other from the school fund.
On selling his National Savings certificates, he would be paid by cheque and his bank deposit would increase.
Do anything but write him a big cheque - even if, again, it mightn't actually be ‘that’ big.
Last year 31 cheques in the name of development had been dishonoured.
Local tax offices will arrange for cheques to be accepted - if you overpay you cannot be fined and can claim the excess back later.
He who doubts the influence of the individual upon the fate of a country and upon his times through long passages of history may explain the difference between France of 1609, with a martial king aided by great statesmen at its head, with an exchequer overflowing with revenue hoarded for a great cause -- and that cause an attempt at least to pacificate PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete
But he was feeling so much like trampled horse turds that it wasn't until he'd read not only her organ donor card but also the name imprinted on her cheques that he realised who the woman actually was. A Traitor to Memory
Summer: in the south west of France for the May half term; at the uplifting madness that was the Secret Garden Festival please note my boyfriend's chequer board haircut which seemed like an inspired idea after a few cocktails; driving up the M11 and being dazzled by the fields of rapeseed coming into bloom; in Cumbria for our summer holidays, bird spotting with the binoculars. Where I was 2008
He signed cheques with careless abandon.
Does this mean that I won't have to change my chequebook or debit card? Times, Sunday Times
Your bank will honour the cheque when the holder presents it for payment.
The rogue gave the master of the college as referee, but in view of his story, the bank opened the account and collected the cheque without making enquiries.
This seems to have been because the bark of the tree consists of square patches like a chequers board. Times, Sunday Times

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