: a book containing blank checks to be drawn on a bank
Examples of checkbook in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebWhile some donors are still enthusiastic, many of those left are giving thousands of dollars or less as those who had given millions like Griffin and AFP close their checkbooks.—Amanda Gordon, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024 Forbes dug deep into the checkbooks of the justices.—Kyle Mullins, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024 Two endless wars and the open checkbook to fight them started the massive debts that have followed.—Letters To The Editor, Orange County Register, 28 Jan. 2024 Or as Thomson might put it: This matter looks set to settle with a checkbook, in the courtroom, or continue as a conundrum.—Lachlan Cartwright, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2024 Harbaugh knows that to win with the Chargers, his owners will have to keep their checkbooks open.—Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024 As previously reported in The Times, several of OMA’s high-level donors have either shifted their support to the Rollins Museum of Art at the nearby Rollins College, or were sitting on their checkbooks.—Brett Sokol, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024 This doesn't impress Lizzie's mom, who's in town to tell her daughter to get back to college or to say goodbye to mom and dad's checkbook.—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2023 In the interim, Lauder has closed his checkbook to Trump.—Noah Rothman, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
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