Check: Definition and additional resources from BNET
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Business Definition for: Check

  • an order in writing requiring the banker to pay on demand a certain sum in money to a specified person or bearer. Although a check can theoretically be written on anything—in a P.G. Woodhouse story, one was written on the side of a cow—banks issue preprinted, customized forms for completion by an account holder who inserts the date, the name of the person to be paid (the payee), the amount in both words and figures, and his or her signature. The customer is the drawer.
  • U.K. term Cheque

Wiktionary Definition for: Check

  • (US) a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
  • Ex:''I was not carrying cash, so I wrote a check for the amount.''
  • (US) a mark like a v or sometimes x used as an indicator. Equivalent of a (UK) tick; also, a checkmark: √
  • Ex: ''Place a check by the things you have done.''
  • (usually plural) a pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern
  • Ex: ''The tablecloth had red and white checks.''
  • a bill, particularly at a restaurant
  • Ex: ''I summoned the waiter, paid the check, and hurried to leave.''
  • a control; a limit or stop
  • Ex: ''checks and balances''
  • an inspection; examination
  • Ex: ''I don't know if she will be there, but it's worth a check.''
  • (''Chess'') The situation in which the king is directly threatened by an enemy piece.
  • to inspect; to examine
  • Ex: ''Check the oil in your car once a month.''
  • Ex: ''Check whether this page has a watermark.''
  • to mark with a checkmark
  • Ex: ''Check the correct answer to each question.''
  • to control, limit, or halt
  • Ex: ''Check your enthusiasm during a negotiation.''
  • to verify or compare with a source of information
  • Ex: ''Check your data against known values.''
  • to leave in safekeeping
  • Ex: ''Check your hat and coat at the door.''
  • to leave with shipping agent for shipping
  • Ex: ''Check your bags at the ticket counter before the flight.''
  • to physically remove a person from play
  • Ex: ''The hockey player gave a good hard check to obtain the puck''

Additional Resources

Final Amendments to Reg CC Released
The article refers to the Check 21 legislation. To facilitate check truncation and electronic check exchange, the Check 21 Act authorizes a new negotiable instrument called a "substitute check." A substitute check is a paper reproduction of the original check that contains an image of the front and back of...
Tags: Financial Services, Check 21, Check 21 Act, Article, Check
White papers 2004-07-27
Check 21: The Check Is Dead, Long Live Its Image
This paper outlines on check 21 regulations. Although Check 21 directly addresses only the creation of a substitute check, it indirectly revolutionizes check processing by opening the door to check truncation and image exchange. First and foremost, Check 21 does not make a check image or an electronic check presentment...
Tags: Financial Services, Check 21, Check
White papers 2004-10-12
How Check 21 Will Impact Your Business: 3 Ways the Banking Act Will Affect Entrepreneurs
This article focuses on the Check 21 legislation and the effects it would have on entrepreneurs. In a nutshell, Check 21 allows banks to replace paper checks with a digital copy of the check, called a substitute check. Once a paper check has been transformed into a substitute check, the...
Tags: Check, Bank, Entrepreneurship, Check 21, Banking, Financial Services, Management
White papers 2004-09-13
Action Steps for Check 21
The Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act, also known as Check 21, promises to influence the banking industry for years to come. By requiring all financial institutions to accept digital reproductions of the original check from an electronic transmission substitute checks, Check 21 paves the way for eliminating much...
Tags: Financial Services, Check 21
White papers
Putting Check 21 in Perspective
Every company should understand Check 21 and its associated impacts. An examination of Check 21 reveals that it is not the end-state for the check payments system, but rather an expansion of the clearing options available to banks. Its provisions present new opportunities and challenges to all parties involved in...
Tags: Financial Services, Check 21
White papers 2005-01-29
Check 21 Issue Brief - Consumer Protections Under U.S. Check Law
The Check 21 Act provides protection for consumers against any loss that may occur as a result of their receipt of a substitute check, instead of the original check. This document has been prepared to summarize the application of consumer protections to original checks, check images and substitute checks under...
Tags: Check 21 Act, American Bankers Association, Check 21, Financial Services
White papers 2004-09-14
Check 21 to Improve Check-Clearing Efficiency
This paper briefs how Check 21 can help in improving check-clearing efficiency. Check 21 will primarily affect banks. It aims to improve check-clearing efficiency by facilitating check truncation, i.e., removing the original paper check from the clearing process. Check 21 gives banks the ability to remove the original paper check...
Tags: Financial Services, Check 21
White papers 2004-06-02
Security Check please - Cool Clicks - Symantec's free Security Check - antiviruses - Brief Article
Six million surfers can't be wrong. As of last October, that's how many had taken advantage of security software company Symantec's free Security Check at www.symantec.com/securitycheck. The Security Check won't do the dirty work of actually cleaning up your computer, but it will give you an assessment of potential problem...
Tags: antivirus, security, Symantec Corp.
Research articles 2002-04-01
Check 21 Resource Document
The article refers to the Check 21 legislation. The Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act (Check 21 Act) facilitates significant change in the way checks are processed in the United States. All banks will be affected by this law even if they do nothing to change their current check...
Tags: Financial Services, Article, Check 21
White papers 2004-03-01
Digital Check Gives 'Check Truncation Systems Innovation Award 2004' to Advanced Financial Solutions for the Successful Implementation of Singapore's Check Truncation System
NORTHFIELD, Ill. -- Digital Check Attributes their 94% Market Share of World's Only True End-to-End Check Image Exchange in Singapore's Check Truncation System to Strategic Alliances
Tags: Advanced Financial Solutions Inc.
Research articles 2004-09-27
Consolidation Continues for Paper-Based Check Exchanges as The Industry Prepares for Check 21: The Connecticut Clearing House Joins The National Check Exchange (NCE), The Largest Check Exchange by Dollar Volume in the U.S.
The article refers to the Check 21 legislation. NCE is already the largest regional check exchange by dollar volume in the U.S. The additional volume helps NCE to continue to reduce costs and increase efficiency of the check clearing process. It also adds momentum to NCE's drive to standardize, rationalize,...
Tags: Article, Consolidation, U.S., National Check Exchange, Industry, Check 21, Financial Services
White papers 2003-08-28
The Impacts of Check 21 and ARC to Your Organization
Check 21 legislation aims to further improve efficiency of the payment system via the creation of a new payment instrument - the substitute check. This article explains the repercussions of the Check 21 legislation on the payment processing environment and how it will compare to check conversion services being offered.
Tags: Financial Services, Operational Accounting, Check 21, Payment, Finance
White papers 2005-01-29
Making the Most of Check 21
This article describes about Check 21 legislation, which will take effect from October 28. It answers the question of how can community banks and credit unions enjoy the greatest benefits from recent Check 21 legislation. The most accessible Check 21 benefits will come from aggregators of check images - most...
Tags: Financial Services, Check 21
White papers
Check 21 Rules Present Banks With New Challenges
The Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act, which will go into effect Oct. 28, will allow financial institutions that receive a check from another bank to send an image of the check rather than the physical paper check to the paying bank. As a result, new image exchange, archiving...
Tags: Data Management, Check 21, Bank, Financial Services
White papers 2004-09-06
Check 21 - Exacerbating the Emerging Crisis in U.S. Banking Profitability
Check 21 legislation's goal is to reduce systemic risk associated with physical check movement as well as to provide a mechanism to reduce the costs associated with check payment processing. Check 21 creates a newly acceptable payment instrument. In addition, Check 21 provides a foundation for the imaging of checks...
Tags: Finance, Operational Accounting, Check 21, Payment, Financial Services
White papers 2004-01-01
Canon Desktop Check Transport Readies for Check 21
Solution Leverages Regulatory Changes in Electronic Check Presentment
Tags: Canon Inc., Check 21, desktop
Research articles 2004-02-01
Check Clearing in the 21st Century: What Treasurers Need to Know Now
In response to the need for a faster, more efficient and more reliable check clearing process, the Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act, known as "Check 21", was signed into law on October 28, 2003, and its provisions will go into effect a year from that date. Why Check...
Tags: Check, Financial Services, Check 21
White papers 2003-12-09
Check 21: Turning Costs Into Opportunities
Check scanning equipment that captures images for electronic use has been around for decades. Already widely accepted in Europe, check imaging devices have been used around the world to build image archives for online systems, reduce data entry and truncate paper. But in the United States, the full breadth of...
Tags: Financial Services, Document Management, Check 21, Imaging, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
White papers 2003-10-06
What Kind of Information Can You Get from a Background Check?
Hiring process is a critical one so it is to be handled very carefully. Background check is one of the important concepts of recruiting process. Have you ever thought "What Kind of Information Can You Get from a Background Check?" Read the article to know what most employment screening firms...
Tags: Workforce Management, Human Resources, Recruitment & Selection, AllBusiness.com, Background
White papers 2003-01-01
Notification Of Stopped Check
Use this template in case if the check has not been received, or if there was a mistake with some part of the check.
Tags: Check, Best Sample Letters
Tools & templates 2008-01-01
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