stop payment

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stop payment

An order to one's bank not to honor a check one has drawn.

stop payment

(Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) an instruction to a bank by the drawer of a cheque to refuse payment on it

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stop payment - a depositor's order to a bank to refuse payment on a check

purchase order, order - a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities; "IBM received an order for a hundred computers"

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stop payment

n (Fin: for cheques etc) → Zahlungssperre f

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