Cheque vs Eft - What's the difference?
cheque | eft |
(Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, UK) A draft directing a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.
* 1848 , (John Stuart Mill), (Principles of Political Economy) , 1920,
* 1999 , Sam Seunarine, Office Procedures for the Caribbean , 2nd edition, reprinted 2001,
* 2007 , Eric Tyson, Tony Martin, Personal Finance for Canadians for Dummies ,
* 2009 , R. Rajesh, T. Sivagnanasithi, Banking Theory Law & Practice , Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi,
A newt, especially the European ).
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.10:
*:Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].
(label) Again; afterwards
*14thC , (Geoffrey Chaucer), '' in ''(The Canterbury Tales) ,
*:Were I unbounden, all so may I the, / I woulde never eft come in the snare.
*1384 , (John Wycliffe), , ii, 1,
*:And eft he entride in to Cafarnaum, aftir eiyte daies.
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*:Than syr bedwere retorned ageyn & took the swerde in hys hande / and than hym thought synne and shame to throwe awaye that nobyl swerde / and so efte he hydde the swerde and retorned ageyn and tolde to the kyng that he had ben at the water and done his commaundemente
*1557 , , ,
*:And when they were all gone, / And the dim moon doth eft withhold the light,
As nouns the difference between cheque and eft
is that cheque is a draft directing a bank to pay money to a named person or entity while eft is a newt, especially the European smooth newt (species: Triton punctatus).As an adverb eft is
again; afterwards.As an initialism EFT is
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* check (US)Noun
(en noun)- I was not carrying cash, so I wrote a cheque for the amount.
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- They do not, however, all deal with the same banker, and when A gives a cheque to B, B usually pays it not into the same but into some other bank.
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- Sometimes abbreviations are used (which would be explained on the statement) and only the last three figures of the cheque' number may be given. ‘Sundries’ are cash or ' cheques paid into the account.
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- You can avoid dealing with paper cheques — written or printed — by paying your bills online.
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- The daily cheque' clearings began around 1770 when bank clerks met at the Five Bells (a tavern in Lombard Street in the City of London) to exchange all their ' cheques in one place and settle the balances in cash.