❌ Placed over 🏦 Marked for deposit

crossed

8.8

Has two parallel lines to show it must be paid into a bank account, not cashed

adjective
/krɔst/

: cheque cruzado

She deposited the crossed cheque directly into her bank account.

Examples

The company issued a crossed cheque to ensure security for the payment.
Always write your recipient’s name on a crossed cheque to prevent misuse.
I received a crossed cheque from my employer.
Make sure to write a crossed cheque for security.
To ensure it can only be deposited, he wrote a crossed cheque for his rent.
When receiving payments, always request a crossed cheque for added security.
She was relieved to find that the crossed cheque could not be cashed by anyone else.

Antonyms

uncrossed

8.6

A bank check you can cash at the counter without using an account

Idioms

to keep one's fingers crossed

Informal

20 3.5

To hope something will turn out well

to get your wires crossed

Informal

4 7.5

To misunderstand each other because of poor communication

Compounds

crossed eye

Specialized

1 5.8

One or both eyes turn inward toward the nose

How Crossed

crossed

8.8

uncrossed

8.6

Surface Forms

crossed positive

Morphology

crossed = cross (semi-transparent) = cross + ed

Formed from 'cross' + '-ed' (meaning 'marked by crossing'), but the cheque sense is a specialized banking convention that may not be inferable to all learners.

Etymology

Crossed (as in a cheque) comes from the same idea of a cross as a mark made with lines. A helpful way to remember a 'crossed' cheque is to imagine two lines drawn across it to keep it safe, which is why it must go into the bank and not be cashed.