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sight draft

noun

  1. a draft payable upon presentation.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of sight draft1

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50
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Example Sentences

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I will draw a sight draft on my grandfather, I said.

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For, of all overdue debts in this world of varied indebtedness, the hardest by a million-fold to pay are the sight drafts of defunct sentiment.

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The sight draft Check.—A check is a written order on a bank, signed by a depositor, directing the bank to pay a certain person a certain sum of money.

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Sometimes you can get settlement by means of a sight draft.

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Credits are intrinsically sound and in ordinary periods are usually regulated with foreign countries by purchase at ninety, or one hundred-and-twenty days' sight drafts.

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