Banknote
a promissory note, payable on demand, issued by an authorized bank and intended to circulate as money.
Contemporary Examples
We have security features in the banknote today that resonate with the international community.
All About the Benjamins: Here’s the Redesigned $100 Bill Daniel Gross October 6, 2013
Now, you’re going to have to excuse the Royalist’s idiocy, but I didn’t even know there was a £100 banknote.
Queen’s Head on New £100 Note Tom Sykes May 29, 2012
Historical Examples
Cherami unfolded the banknote which he held in his hand, and was thunderstruck when he saw that it was for a thousand francs.
Monsieur Cherami Charles Paul de Kock
When she shook hands with him Nancy had the banknote ready and she left it in his hand.
A Little Miss Nobody Amy Bell Marlowe
Two years ago this fall, father threw me a banknote at table, and I purchased this with it.
A Confederate Girl’s Diary Sarah Margan Dawson
His jaw was set as he pulled off banknote after banknote in the tense silence which had fallen.
‘Me-Smith’ Caroline Lockhart
The lowest bribe given, it was said, was a banknote for two hundred pounds.
Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) Thomas Babington Macaulay
Anyone would cash a cheque of Dunns’: it is as good as a banknote.
Mrs. Halliburton’s Troubles Mrs. Henry Wood
I told her how you had given the banknote to me; it moved my darling to tears.
Father Goriot Honore de Balzac
Lockley put a banknote on the kitchen table, with a weight on it to keep it from blowing away.
Operation Terror William Fitzgerald Jenkins
noun
a promissory note issued by a central bank, serving as money
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