Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• DRAFT
  
  A written order drawn by one party, called a drawer, that directs a second party (almost always a bank), called a drawee, to pay a sum of money to a third party, called the payee. For example, a check. Drafts are used with letters of credit. Drafts may be sight drafts, payable upon receipt, or time drafts, payable on some specified future date.
  
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