Cheque vocabulary

1. to tell your bank that a cheque you have written should not be paid by them. The American expression is stop payment on a check.
4. a cheque that is worth nothing because the person who wrote it does not have enough money in their bank account.
6. the part of something such as a cheque that you keep as a record of a payment you have made.
8. a cheque that has been signed but does not have an amount of money written on it, so that it can be exchanged for whatever amount is entered.
12. to give a cheque to a bank so that it can be put into your account
13. formal to exchange a cheque for money.
15. the person who you pay a cheque or money to.
19. a cheque that has two lines drawn across it to show that it can only be paid into the bank account of the person whose name is on it.
20. (phrase)showing who an amount of money written on a cheque should be paid to.
21. (phrase)if a bank honours a cheque, it agrees to pay the amount of money written on the cheque to the person the cheque is written to.
22. (phrasal verb)to write all the necessary information on a document such as a cheque.

2. the American spelling of cheque
3. a piece of printed paper that you can use instead of money to pay for things.
5. if a cheque clears, or if a bank clears it, the bank allows the money to be used
7. the process by which a bank accepts a cheque that you have written and pays the money to the person, shop etc that you gave the cheque to.
9. to draw two lines across a cheque to show that it can be paid only into the bank account of the person whose name is on it.
10. to write your name on the back of a cheque or official document to make it legal.
11. to take money from a bank account by writing a cheque.
14. a book of cheques
16. to exchange a cheque for its value in notes and coins.
17. the small piece of paper left in your chequebook when you tear out a cheque
18. when the bank refuses to pay the cheque because there is not enough money in the account of the person who wrote it.