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A directive to pay a prespecified amount of money from prepaid funds, making it a more trusted method of payment than a check.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: banking, business, finance
Examples
- 1965, Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia No. 51 - 1965, page 589, The issue of money orders and postal notes is regulated by sections 74-79 of the Post and Telegraph Act 1901—1961. The maximum amount for which a single money order payable within Australia may be obtained is £40, but additional orders will be issued upon request when larger amounts are to be remitted. The maximum amount permitted to be sent by any one person to a person or persons outside Australia is £A.10 a week. A postal note is not available for a sum larger than twenty shillings.
- 2007, Gary B. Magee, Andrew S. Thompson, ‘Migrapounds’: Remittance Flows Within the British World, c. 1875—1913, Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw, Stuart Macintyre (editors), Britishness Abroad: Transnational Movements and Imperial Cultures, page 47, In the UK, a Money Order Office was formed in 1838, a separate and specialised department of the Royal Mail that had its origins in an officially sanctioned private business carried on from the late eighteenth century.9 [...] By 1873, a reliable international money order service was in full operation between the United Kingdom and the majority of its colonies,10 as well as with a number of other countries, not least the USA.11
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: negotiable instrument, instrument
a written order for the payment of a sum to a named individual; obtainable and payable at a post office
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: postal order
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: draft, bill of exchange, order of payment
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
32 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Afrikaans:
poswissel
— a type of cheque
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Chinese Mandarin:
匯票 /汇票
(huìpiào)
— a type of cheque
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Dutch:
postwissel
— a type of cheque
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Finnish:
maksuosoitus
— a type of cheque
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Finnish:
postiosoitus
— a type of cheque
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French:
mandat-poste
— a type of cheque
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French:
mandat postal
— a type of cheque
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German:
Geldbrief
— a type of cheque
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German:
Postanweisung
— a type of cheque
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Hindi:
धनादेश
(dhanādeś)
— a type of cheque
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Hungarian:
készpénzátutalási megbízás
— a type of cheque
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Hungarian:
postautalvány
— a type of cheque
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Hungarian:
pénzesutalvány
— a type of cheque
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Hungarian:
sárga csekk
— a type of cheque
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Hungarian:
rózsaszín csekk
— a type of cheque
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Indonesian:
wesel
— a type of cheque
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Indonesian:
wesel pos
— a type of cheque
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Indonesian:
surat perintah pembayaran
— a type of cheque
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Italian:
vaglia postale
— a type of cheque
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Japanese:
為替
(kawase)
— a type of cheque
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Lao:
ມັງດາ
(mang dā)
— a type of cheque
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Malay:
wang pos
— a type of cheque
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Norwegian:
postanvisning
— a type of cheque
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Plautdietsch:
Postjelt
— a type of cheque
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Russian:
де́нежный перево́д
(dénežnyj perevód)
— a type of cheque
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Spanish:
giro postal
— a type of cheque
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Spanish:
moniórder
— a type of cheque
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Spanish:
órden dineraria
— a type of cheque
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Swahili:
hawala
— a type of cheque
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Swedish:
postanvisning
— a type of cheque
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Tagalog:
hiro postal
— a type of cheque
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Thai:
ธนาณัติ
— a type of cheque
