词汇 | accepting-house |
释义 | accepting house noun[ C ] ukus(alsoacceptance house); (alsoacceptance bank) BANKING one of several large banks in London in the past that received bills of exchange (= written orders to pay someone a particular sum of money) Examples of accepting houseaccepting house If the third party issuing the bill would default, the acceptinghouse would pay the bill itself. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The term acceptinghouse was more of an indication of status rather than function. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He is not connected with an acceptinghouse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Here was a committee which had no acceptinghouse on it at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There was only one acceptinghouse on that committee. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The third is: "by opening an acceptance credit with a bank or acceptinghouse". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If you had the chance of being a customer of a good bank, you would be proud if you were a customer of an acceptinghouse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Or again, there was that acceptinghouse which found itself very severely troubled as a consequence of the crash within the secondary bank and property markets. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This resulted in the adoption of a perverse policy that those having achieved the highest recognition (like the clearing banks or the accepting houses) received the closest attention. In such a case the embarrassment caused by this artificial drain of the gold reserve would much more than offset the amount of the commission earned by the accepting houses. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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