A document ordering the payment of money; drawn by one person or bank on another.
1I have enclosed a bill of exchange for £75, on Messrs A.B.
2She was going, she said, to Auteuil for that bill of exchange.
3I shewed him the bill of exchange, but he evinced no emotion whatever.
4The last enclosed a bill of exchange from Mr. Grand, on Tessier, for £46.
5Where the bill of exchange was cashed does not appear.
6Is there a bill of exchange sent to your brother?
7With the money which you receive on the bill of exchange, do what is necessary.
8Take it, and the bill of exchange with you.
9The remainder I turned into a bill of exchange for seven thousand five hundred dollars.
10But his bill of exchange came all the same.
11This action was taken on a bill of exchange.
12Such a bill of exchange I will write for you- alegacyfor my dear Wilhelmine.
13Wherefore, what do you mean by writing to me about negotiating a bill of exchange?
14I therefore enclose a bill of exchange * * * *.
15Two days afterwards I got from Venice the bill of exchange for which I was waiting.
16Five days after I got the letter with a bill of exchange for two hundred ducats.
Translations for bill of exchange