drawer

Examples

• All

• Harry placed the check in the drawer under the counter.

  Fiction book (1993)

• I'll ask you to do the cash drawer, if you don't mind.

  Ruby in Paradise (1993)

• I run through the hallway and grab my checkbook from the drawer.

  Fiction book (1997)

• I smiled and slipped the money into my drawer.

  Fiction book (1997)

• I'm gonna be cleaning out the cash drawers... and my associate here is gonna handle the vault.

  Big Fish (2003)

• I waved them through, taking fifty cents from my purse and tossing it into the drawer.

  Fiction book (1995)

• John's skilled hands were loading a stack of banknotes into a drawer.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Millunzi sighed and lifted the cash drawer, showing three bundles of twenties in bank wrappers.

  Fiction book (1996)

• The drawer, with his signature, instructed the bank to release the funds to John.

• She is the drawer of the check that paid for the charity event last week.

Synonyms

P

payer

vsdrawer

67 2.1

A person or company that gives money to get goods and services

is the one who writes and signs a check directing bank payment

P

payor

vsdrawer

• Specialized

1 7.0

A person or organization that gives money to settle a bill

instructs a bank by writing and signing a check to order payment

R

remitter

vsdrawer

• Specialized

5.7

A person or organization who sends money to someone

acts that way only when payment uses a written bank order

Antonyms

P

payee

• Specialized

3 3.9

A person or organization who receives money from a payment such as a cheque

Idioms

F

for the drawer

9.9

Writing that a writer keeps private and does not publish

N

not the sharpest knife in the drawer

• Offensive

9.1

Not very quick to understand things

W

to write for the drawer

• Informal

9.4

Make stories or poems and keep them private, not share them

Compounds

T

top drawer

• UK

15 6.8

Very high quality or the upper drawer in a piece of furniture

T

tooth-drawer

• Archaic

9.9

A tool for pulling out teeth used in old dental care

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology