banknote
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- noun
- /ˈbæŋkˌnoʊt/
:
billete
- He handed over a banknote to pay for his lunch.
- counterfeit banknotes
- fifty banknotes
- coins and banknotes
And they have their banknotes with quintillions.
- And they have their banknotes with quintillions.
- It's not just the postage stamps that have her profile and the coins and banknotes and post boxes.
- His logic was that back then, banknotes were mostly redeemable into gold or silver coin.
- Now, there was an FBI guy who was trying to investigate that dollar that that banknote, find out where it came from.
- So I carried my real wallet and a fake wallet and I put like a couple of banknotes in there and like an old Blockbuster video card.
- And so you don't think of private banks as issuing banknotes, but they used to and it used to be prominent.
- The situation is now so bad that Chinese paper mills actually make a profit by pulping the worthless banknotes.
- If you think about gold coins or paper banknotes or cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, they have no value in themselves.
- And the history of private banknotes is usually what you know, good until it's really bad and the history of money.
Examples
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Economics teachers might use banknotes as an introduction to lessons focusing on international rates of exchange.
Academic text (1991) -
John's skilled hands were loading a stack of banknotes into a drawer.
Fiction book (2001) -
Now, in the beginning a man gave a banknote to another man.
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And how much of the banknote value do you plan on circulating?
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I cannot accept these banknotes.
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Soon the people of France were more willing to accept Law's banknotes than coin.
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Money doesn't have its meaning even just as a physical object, as the banknote or as the coin.
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Aiello's book features photographs of banknotes from every country in the world.
Academic text (1991) -
Looking at the banknotes, the students find those with portraits and endeavor to identify the people.
Academic text (1991) -
The grim doctor handed Bruno a bundle of banknotes in a color he had never seen in money before: purple.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
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Money made of paper that people use to pay for things
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A paper bill used as money or a written promise to pay money
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Money made of printed paper notes that a government uses
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Paper money issued by a central bank used to pay for things
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Money in printed notes that people use instead of coins
Paper money issued by a country's central bank used to buy things
A piece of paper used as money and issued by a central bank
A piece of paper money issued by a central bank used to pay for things
How Valuable
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Banknote comes from two parts: bank, from the old Italian word banca meaning 'bench' where money dealers sat, and note, meaning a 'written' paper. So a banknote is literally a paper from a bank that shows its value and can be used as money.