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Blank Cheque

Definition: Blank Cheque

Blank Cheque

Noun

1. A check that has been signed but with the amount payable left blank.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definitions: Blank Cheque

DomainDefinitions

Finance

Checkbook : a book formed of a number of detachable -- =, issued to a depositor by a bank. Source: European Union. (references)

Literature

Blank Cheque A cheque duly signed, but without specifying any sum of money; the amount to be filled in by the payee. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Blank Cheque

Synonym: blank check (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Blank Cheque

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: Blank Cheque

Expression using "blank cheque": give smb. a blank cheque. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Blank Cheque

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  blank cheque

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Blank Cheque

Language Translations for "blank cheque"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

çek i bardhë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مطلق التصرف, ‏حوالة مفتوحة, ‏شيك مفتوح. (various references)

   

Czech

  

bianko šek. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

blanco volmacht (carte blanche), blanco cheque (carte blanche), carte blanche (carte blanche, elbow-room). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

blanketo (carte blanche). (various references)

   

French

  

blanc de chèque (blank check), formule de chèque (blank check), chèque en blanc. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ανοιχτή επιταγή. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

י" חפשית (a free hand). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

biankó csekk. (various references)

   

Manx

  

sheck vane, sheck bane. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ankblay equechay

   

Portuguese

  

cartabranca (carte blanche), assinaturaembranco (carte blanche). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

cec în alb. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

карт-бланш (carte blanche). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

blanko ček. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cheque en blanco, carta blanca (carte blanche, freehand). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

blankocheck, oifylld check. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

açık çek (blank check, uncrossed check, uncrossed cheque). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Blank Cheque

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-h-k-l-n-q-u"

-1 letter: quenchable.

-4 letters: bechalk, blacken, buckeen, equable, nebulae.

-5 letters: achene, alkene, baleen, blanch, bleach, blench, buckle, calque, chabuk, chelae, cheque, claque, cuneal, enable, enlace, hackee, hackle, heckle, huckle, keblah, kuchen, lacune, launce, launch, nebula, nebule, nuchae, nuchal, quench, unable, uncake, unlace.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Blank Cheque


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 6C 61 6E 6B      43 68 65 71 75 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101100 01100001 01101110 01101011 00100000 01000011 01101000 01100101 01110001 01110101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#108 &#97 &#110 &#107 &#32 &#67 &#104 &#101 &#113 &#117 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 006C 0061 006E 006B      0043 0068 0065 0071 0075 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36786780772377471838771

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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