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Definition: Sight Draft |
Sight DraftNoun1. A draft payable on presentation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Business | A document which requires payment of the amount specified therein upon presentation at any time ; a bill of exchange which must be paid when payment is requested. Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | A customer's order to a financial institution holding the customer's funds to pay all or part of them to another institution in which the customer has another account. The draft is payable upon delivery to the first institution, or "upon sight." Also called a customer draft. (references) |
Shipping | A draft payable upon presentation to the drawee. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Sight Draft |
| English words defined with "sight draft": At sight. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sight draft": S/D. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The method of payment is usually by letter of credit or sight draft. (references) | |
The most common financing methods used by buyers are Letters of Credit, Telegraphic Transfer, and Sight Draft. (references) | ||
Trade | Venezuela | Similarly, some U.S. companies have had difficulties with sight draft transactions. (references) |
Hong Kong | U.S. suppliers should seek to obtain letters of credit or sight draft terms when dealing with buyers who are not well known to them. (references) | |
Argentina | Since there are no foreign currency restrictions, payment of any kind of import can be made in cash or on the terms agreed by the parties, such as a letter of credit (L/C), or a sight draft with deferred payment. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sight draft | 26 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sight draft"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sigtveksel (bill payable on demand, demand bill, demand draft, sight bill, sight document), sigtdokument (bill payable on demand, demand bill, demand draft, sight bill, sight document), a vista veksel (bill payable on demand, demand bill, demand draft, sight bill, sight document). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zichtwissel (bill payable on demand, demand bill, demand draft, sight bill, sight document), zichtpapier (bill payable on demand, demand bill, demand draft, sight bill, sight document), papier op zicht (bill payable on demand, demand bill, demand draft, sight bill, sight document). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | avistavekseli (bill payable on demand, demand bill, demand draft, sight bill, sight document). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | effet vue (sight bill, sight document). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sichttratte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συναλλαγματική όψεωσ, συναλλαγματική όψεως (bill payable on demand, demand bill, demand draft, sight bill, sight document), γραμμάτιο όψεωσ, τίτλος όψεως (bill payable on demand, demand bill, demand draft, sight bill, sight document). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | titolo pagabile a vista (bill payable on demand, demand bill, demand draft, sight bill, sight document), effetto a vista (bill payable on demand, demand bill, demand draft, sight bill, sight document), cambiale a vista (bill payable on demand, demand bill, demand draft, sight bill, sight document). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ightsay aftdray título pagável vista (bill payable on demand, demand bill, demand draft, sight bill, sight document), letra pagavel vista (bill payable on demand, demand bill, demand draft, sight bill, sight document), letra vista (bill payable on demand, demand bill, demand draft, sight bill, sight document). (various references) letra a la vista. (various references) avistadokument (bill payable on demand, demand bill, demand draft, sight bill, sight document). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-f-g-h-i-r-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: straight. | |
-3 letters: athirst, dishrag, fattish, frights, garfish, ratfish, rattish, tartish, thrifts. | |
-4 letters: adrift, afrits, airths, aright, artist, dights, drafts, drifts, faiths, fights, firths, fright, friths, fritts, garish, garths, girths, grafts, gratis, grifts, griths, radish, rights, shaird, sharif, shrift, strait, strath, strati, thirds, thirst, thrift, tights, traits, triads. | |
-5 letters: adits, afrit, agist, airth, airts, astir. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-f-g-h-i-r-s-t-t" | |
+5 letters: straightforward. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 69 67 68 74 44 72 61 66 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 00100000 01000100 01110010 01100001 01100110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S i g h t   D r a f t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0069 0067 0068 0074 0044 0072 0061 0066 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537573748623884677286 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | tanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, dinamarquês, danés, dansk |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | hollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, holandês, holandés, holländsk |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finlandese, finlandês, finês, finlandés, finés, finsk |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, francês, francés, fransk, franska |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | tysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, tedesco, alemão, alemán, tysk |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | græker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, grego, griego, grek |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italiener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, italiensk, italienska, italienare |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, português, portugués, portugis |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, espanhol, español, spanska språk, spansk |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | Zweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svedese, sueco, svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, inglês, inglés, engelsk |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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