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# cheque

«cheque» in Mova's school dictionary: **A printed paper form you write on to tell your bank to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a cheque, cheques)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, NZ) A printed paper form you write on to tell your bank to pay money from your account to someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheque/#m1)

2) (US spelling: check) The same thing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheque/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In money lessons a cheque is an older way of paying: you write the amount in figures and words and sign it. Many people now use cards and phone payments instead, but grandparents still post cheques for birthdays. Phrases: «write a cheque», «pay by cheque», «cash a cheque», «a blank cheque» (permission to spend anything).

### examples

- Grandma sent me a cheque for my birthday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheque/#x1)
- You write the amount in words and numbers on a cheque. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheque/#x2)
- Dad paid in the cheque at the bank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheque/#x3)
- Hardly any shops take cheques now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheque/#x4)
- The charity got a giant cheque for £1,000. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheque/#x5)
- Don't sign a blank cheque — anyone could fill in the amount. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheque/#x6)

### note

UK spelling cheque, US spelling check; same sound as «check». In the USA «check» also means the bill in a restaurant. Countable.

### In the corpora

- [A cheque is a written note telling your bank to pay someone; few people use cheques now.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/5-money-s-history-shells-coins-paper-cards-phones/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cheque» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheque/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.