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# chequebook

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

«chequebook» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chequebook/#m2)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «chequebook» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chequebook/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«chequebook» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/chequebook.html) on Mova free.