sight bill

British

noun

variants of demand bill

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Part of that success, she knew, derived from his practice of lending money to hard-pressed freeholders at generous rates but short terms, then foreclosing on their lands the moment the sight bills came due.

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The English spinner about to purchase cotton in America arranges for his bank to accept sixty or ninety days' sight bills drawn on it by the American shipper.

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The New York Bank draws £100,000 of ninety days' sight bills, and, satisfactory collateral having been deposited, turns them over to the brokerage house of Smith & Jones.

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He thought again of the sight bills, now locked in the Great Cabin of the Defiance and payable in one week.

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"And I suppose you'll be telling me next that Master Briggs and the Council can scarcely wait to settle your sight bills."

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