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  • noun Plural form of cheque.

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Examples

  • If you have a low income, as I did as a college student, we received cheques from the government to reimburse what we lost as VAT.

    Matthew Yglesias » Making Consumption Taxes More Progressive 2010

  • Janet Perrie is alleged to have stolen cheques from the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party while working as an accounts assistant for the party in Princes Street, Edinburgh between July 2005 and October 2007.

    Accounts assistant charged with stealing £150,000 from Scottish Tories 2009

  • But it's the engineering brain power that has either left the country, or braindead working on $800-$1500 a day dole cheques from the bumbling bureaucratic banks.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Ben Barren 2006

  • But it's the engineering brain power that has either left the country, or braindead working on $800-$1500 a day dole cheques from the bumbling bureaucratic banks.

    Google says Big Bubbles, No Trouble. Ben Barren 2006

  • When I signed up for my not-Disney-or-dolphins-or-woodgrain cheques (aka the free ones) I was initially sent a massive pack of about 3,000 cheques.

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • When I signed up for my not-Disney-or-dolphins-or-woodgrain cheques (aka the free ones) I was initially sent a massive pack of about 3,000 cheques.

    Cheque. 2005

  • My first set of questions are for you who take home cheques from the MSM.

    Archive 2005-03-01 2005

  • B may have $5000 in cheques on E, and E may have $4000 in cheques on B, so that the exchange can be made -- that is, the cheques can be paid by E paying the difference of $1000, which is done, not direct, but through the officers of the clearing-house.

    Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) Various

  • Smith, also known as Denton and McVey, was also charged with using a credit card dishonestly on 13 occasions between July 7 and 24 and dishonestly using a document, namely cheques she removed from her mother's handbag on August 25.

    Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010

  • While users will still be required to offer PayPal to users who want it, other options such as cheques, money orders, bank deposits and rival services like PayMate will still be allowed.

    Thursday, July 3, 2008 | Lifehacker Australia 2008

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