cashier's check
12
4.6
- noun
- /kæˈʃɪrz tʃɛk/
- Specialized
:
cheque bancario
- To finalize the purchase, the seller requested a cashier's check instead of a personal check.
- get a cashier's check
- Payment by cashier's check
- cashier's check or money order
Examples
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A few weeks later, a realtor from Missoula visited Margaret and laid in front of her a cashier's check for $1.4 million.
Academic text (2001) -
People pay in cashier's checks.
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So did you want that in a cashier's check?
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Do you have a cashier's check?
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I got the cashier's check right here.
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I have a cashier's check right here.
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If you live out of town, I will only accept cashier's check or money order.
Blog text (31) -
Yes, I have a cashier's check and I'd like to cash it.
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Here's your cashier's check, sir.
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It's a cashier's check.
Synonyms
3
4.2
A check the bank promises will have enough money to pay someone
1
5.7
A cheque that a bank promises to pay to the person named
1
4.1
A cheque from a bank that you can cash right away and is safer than a personal cheque
A paper payment that a bank issues and pays from its own money
How Secure
- Specialized
1
4.3
- Specialized
12
4.6
- Specialized
3
4.2
- US
9
2.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
cashier's + check
Knowing 'cashier' and 'check' will lead a B1 learner to infer this is a type of check associated with a cashier or bank, so the general relation is clear. However, the specific legal/guarantee sense — that the bank issues the check on its own account and guarantees payment — is a specialized institutional meaning not fully predictable from the constituents, so it is not fully transparent.
Etymology
Cashier's check comes from the image of a bank cashier writing the check with the bank's own money instead of a customer's. So the bank itself 'promises' to pay, and that's why this check is seen as a very safe way to make a payment.