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Money Order

Definition: Money Order

Money Order

Noun

1. 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.
 


Specialty Definition: Money Order

DomainDefinition

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.

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Synonym: Money Order

Synonym: postal order (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Money Order

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Money Order

English words defined with "money order": Postoffice order. (references)
Specialty definitions using "money order": COUNTER CLERKpostal money order. (references)

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Modern Usage: Money Order

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Money Order (1990)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Money Order

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Expressions: Money Order

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Money Order

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

money order

863

send money order online

14

international money order

168

international postal money order

14

money order online

118

purchase a money order

13

western union money order

74

cashing money order

12

postal money order

72

lost money order

12

dead law money order

59

money order trace

10

express money order traveler

44

money order tracing

10

fill out a money order

39

filling money order

10

send money order

35

money order use

9

tracking money order

31

get money order

8

dead law money order through walk

26

dead hint law money order

8

money order usps

25

buy a money order online

8

buy money order

21

canadian money order

8

american express money order

20

money order company

8

money order service

17

get money order where

7

cheat dead law money order

15

money order using

7

global express money order

15

money order postal tracking

7

cash a money order

15

money order phentermine

6

us postal money order

14

free money order

6

track money order

14

fraud money order

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Money Order

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

   

Portuguese

  

vale postal (postal order), ordem de pagamento (note). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

mandat poştal (postal order). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

денежный перевод (money orders, money-order, post-office order, temit tance). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

uputnica, novčana uputnica, doznaka (allocation). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

giro postal (m.o., postal order). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

postanvisning (money-order, postal order, postal-order). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

havale (endorsement, reference, remittance, transfer). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Money Order

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.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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