Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• CHECK
  
  a written order instructing a thrift institution or bank to pay immediately on demand a specified amount of money from the check writer's account to the person named on the check or, if a specific person is not named, to whoever bears the check to the institution for payment.
  
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