EuroLex/E/Traveller's cheque

traveller's cheque


 * Original language: English
 * Original form and meaning: n. 'a cheque for a fixed amount that may be cashed on signature, usu. internationally'

(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


 * Annotations: * DEA = Dictionary of European Anglicisms by Manfred Görlach (2001), Oxford: OUP.; ** CODEE = The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology by T.F. Hoad (1986), Oxford: Clarendon.


 * Information on Other Languages: Icelandic: < ferðatékki; Romanian:  traveller's cheque [= English], 1990s, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: restricted use: technical; Russian: trevler-chek, end20c, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: restricted use: technical; Bulgarian: travel chek < putnicheski chek, end20c, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: restricted use: technical, slang; Albanian: < cek udhetues (rend.); Greek: traveller's (tsek), 1990s, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: restricted use: technical;

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