The bank returned our cheque for lack of funds.
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Return — The change in the value of a portfolio over an evaluation period, including any distributions made from the portfolio during that period. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * * ▪ I. return re‧turn 1 [rɪˈtɜːn ǁ ɜːrn] verb 1. [transitive]… … Financial and business terms
return — The change in the value of a portfolio over an evaluation period, including any distributions made from the portfolio during that period. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary The annual return on an investment expressed as a percentage of the total… … Financial and business terms
Cheque fraud — Cheque fraud/check fraud refers to a category of criminal acts that involve making the unlawful use of cheques in order to illegally acquire or borrow funds that do not exist within the account balance or account holder s legal ownership. Most… … Wikipedia
Cheque truncation — (check truncation in the United States) is the conversion of physical cheque into electronic form for transmission to the paying bank. Cheque truncation eliminates cumbersome physical presentation of the cheque and saves time and processing costs … Wikipedia
rubber cheque — UK US noun [C] UK (US rubber check) ► INFORMAL BANKING a cheque that a bank refuses to pay because it is written on an account that does not contain enough money: »Watch out for rubber cheques. If a client gives you a cheque that bounces, your… … Financial and business terms
Clearing cheque return — A cheque which has not been accepted in the clearing house and is returned to the bank … International financial encyclopaedia
Early life of Jan Smuts — Jan Christian Smuts (aka Jan Christiaan Smuts), OM, CH, ED, KC, FRS (24 May 1870 ndash; 11 September 1950) was a prominent South African and Commonwealth statesman, military leader, and philosopher. He served as a Boer General during the Boer War … Wikipedia
Cash-for-questions affair — The cash for questions affair was one of the biggest political scandals of the 1990s in the United Kingdom. It began in October 1994 when The Guardian newspaper alleged that London s most successful parliamentary lobbyist, Ian Greer of Ian Greer… … Wikipedia
Advance-fee fraud — African sting An advance fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance sums of money in the hope of realizing a significantly larger gain.[1] Among the variations on this type of scam are the Nigerian Letter (also… … Wikipedia
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — The Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 An Act to define and Law relating to Promissory Notes, Bills of Exchange and cheques. Citation Act No. 26 of 1881 … Wikipedia
