Subscriber login


Forgot your password?

Library card login

Other

cheque

Pronunciation: /tʃɛk/
(US check)
Translate cheque | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish
Definition of cheque

noun

  • an order to a bank to pay a stated sum from the drawer’s account, written on a specially printed form: they presented him with a cheque for £4,000 fees are payable by cheque or postal order

Origin:

early 18th century (originally denoting a counterfoil, or a form with a counterfoil): variant of check1, in the sense 'device for checking the amount of an item'

Spelling help

Spell cheque with -que at the end (the spelling check is American).

cheque in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of cheque in the US English dictionary

Nearby words

  |  Cite

Word of the day

ludology

/ luːˈdɒlədʒi /
noun
the study of games and gaming, especially video games …