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- noun A
folder containingpreprinted cheques for use by the holder of abank account
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a book issued to holders of checking accounts
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Examples
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Because my support comes pretty much in chequebook form right now.
Archive 2006-09-01 kittenpie 2006
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Because my support comes pretty much in chequebook form right now.
Little Causes kittenpie 2006
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China and Taiwan continue to engage in what has often been called "chequebook diplomacy" with Pacific island nations, usually in the form of developmental aid or, in China's case, providing assistance for large government complexes, stadia or infrastructure projects.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Alex Spillius 2011
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It's easy to say this kind of chequebook journalism is tasteless if you don't understand why a fee would be offered (to guarantee exclusivity, among other reasons).
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Nouveau richeCrawley Town's Hong Kong-based backers made them the big spenders of non-league last year and show no inclination to put their chequebook away.
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You might also note that the Gov is determined to hand over the reins of the NHS chequebook to a bunch of seld-employed, overpaid, medical freemasons ( GPs) As far as the other "services" are concerned ( Army etc ) they're a complete law unto themselves.
Policing and surveillance: The inspector calls | Editorial 2011
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They are trying to close it down with their chequebook but I don't think they're going to succeed.
News of the World phone hacking victims get apology from Murdoch 2011
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We haven't got the biggest chequebook but we have got a plan.
Wigan's Roberto Martínez feels more English than Spanish Paul Wilson 2010
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It's not simply the mea culpa he extracts from the US president over Watergate, but the scale of the project (29 hours of conversation, edited down to six), the risk (he sold his shares in London Weekend Television to pay Nixon $600,000 – it was regarded by many as the start of chequebook journalism), and the drama (the real thing is even more compelling than the movie).
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The influence extended two ways: his team-mates taught him how to spend his Premier League pay packet with a chequebook.
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