Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A note or an acknowledgment for money lodged with a banker for a stipulated time, on which a higher rate of interest is allowed than on the balance of a current account.
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Examples
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There before her lay the deposit-receipt for the two hundred pounds, and beside it the elegant present of Knight.
A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006
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It helped to stop us from thinking, and every week we had a bigger deposit-receipt in the bank where we used to sell our gold.
Robbery Under Arms 2004
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There before her lay the deposit-receipt for the two hundred pounds, and beside it the elegant present of Knight.
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1884
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It helped to stop us from thinking, and every week we had a bigger deposit-receipt in the bank where we used to sell our gold.
Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields Rolf Boldrewood 1870
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Will you take a deposit-receipt of the bank for ten pounds and give me the pound change? that'll just be the nine pounds for the half-year's rent.
Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) William Henry Hurlbert 1861
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