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# chequebook

«chequebook» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small book of printed forms (cheques) that a bank gives…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a chequebook, chequebooks); US spelling: checkbook

### meaning for a pupil

1) (money) A small book of printed forms (cheques) that a bank gives to a customer; you write on a cheque to pay someone from your bank account. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chequebook/#m1)

2) (informal) Used to mean paying money to solve a problem, as in «chequebook journalism». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chequebook/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and money lessons it shows how adults used to pay before cards and phones: write the amount in numbers and words, sign it, and the bank moves the money. Fewer people use chequebooks now, but some still do for bills and gifts. Phrases: «write a cheque», «chequebook and pen».

### examples

- Grandma took out her chequebook to pay the plumber. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chequebook/#x1)
- A chequebook has cheques you tear out along the dotted line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chequebook/#x2)
- We practised writing a cheque in words and numbers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chequebook/#x3)
- Dad hardly ever uses his chequebook now; he pays by phone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chequebook/#x4)
- In the USA it is spelled "checkbook". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chequebook/#x5)
- She keeps her chequebook in a safe drawer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chequebook/#x6)
- My birthday cheque came from Grandpa's chequebook. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chequebook/#x7)

### note

UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand spell it «cheque»; the USA uses «check», so «checkbook». Countable: chequebooks. Maths: the amount on a cheque is written twice, in figures (£25.50) and in words (twenty-five pounds and fifty pence), to stop mistakes and cheating.

### Trees and pragmatics

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