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Definition: Money Order |
Money OrderNoun1. A written order for the payment of a sum to a named individual; obtainable and payable at a post office. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Finance | A document by means of which money is paid at the post office for transmission to another person. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An instrument of exchange purchased for a fee from the U.S. Postal Service or from a financial institution. The instrument is an order to pay on demand a sum of money specified on the face of the order to a party (the payee) named by the purchaser. Since the purchaser has already paid the face amount of a money order to the issuer, the payee presenting the order to an agent of the issuer is sure of collecting the funds. Thus, money orders are easily converted to cash anywhere in the United States, or anywhere the issuer has agents.money stock. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: Money OrderSynonym: postal order (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Money | Paper money, greenback; major denomination, minor denomination; money order, postal money order, Post Office order; bank note; bond; bill, bill of exchange; order, warrant, coupon, debenture, exchequer bill, assignat; blueback, hundi, shinplaster. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Money Order |
| English words defined with "money order": Postoffice order. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "money order": COUNTER CLERK ♦ postal money order. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Money Order (1990) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Travel | Philippines | The Philippine Postal Corporation (Philpost) provides for surface, airmail, and Express Mail Service (EMS), as well as domestic regular, priority, and express mail, postal money order service, and registered and special delivery mail. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expressions using "money order": international money order ♦ pay by money order ♦ postal money order ♦ send money order. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "money order"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | poswissel (money). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mandat-paguesë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حوالة مالية (remittance), حوالة بريدية (postal order). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пощенски запис (postal money-order), пощенски превод. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | poštovní poukázka (postal order), penìžní poukázka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | postanvisning (postal order). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | postwissel (postal order). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | poŝtmandato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | maksuosoitus (draft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mandat-poste, mandat postal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | postanweisung (postal order), Geldbrief. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χρηματική εντολή (postal order). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "מחאת כסף. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pénzesutalvány (postal order). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | wesel (draft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mandato postale (postal order), vaglia postale (postal order), vaglia (assignation, directive, instruction, postal-order). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 為替 (exchange). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かわせ (exchange, rapids, shallows of a river), "がわせ (postal order). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | postanvisning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oneymay orderay vale postal (postal order), ordem de pagamento (note). (various references) mandat poştal (postal order). (various references) денежный перевод (money orders, money-order, post-office order, temit tance). (various references) uputnica, novčana uputnica, doznaka (allocation). (various references) giro postal (m.o., postal order). (various references) postanvisning (money-order, postal order, postal-order). (various references) havale (endorsement, reference, remittance, transfer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-m-n-o-o-r-r-y" | |
-2 letters: moderner. | |
-3 letters: doormen, moderne, moneyed, moneyer, mooneye. | |
-4 letters: dormer, dromon, droner, emerod, mender, modern, monody, mooned, moored, moreen, normed, omened, ornery, redeny, redone, remedy, remend, render, rodmen, roomed, roomer, yeomen, yonder. | |
-5 letters: demon, derry, donee, donor, doomy, dormy, doyen, drone, dryer, emend, emery, emyde, ender, enemy, enorm, erode, erred, merde, merer, merry, monde, mondo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-m-n-o-o-r-r-y" | |
+4 letters: recommendatory. | |
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