promissory note

English

Noun

promissory note (plural promissory notes)

1. (finance) A document saying that someone owes a specific amount of money to someone else, often with the deadline and interest fees; the primary purposes of a promissory note are to evidence the debt obligation incurred, and to establish terms for payment thereof.

Synonyms

• note payable

Hypernyms

• negotiable instrument

Translations

document saying that someone owes a specific amount of money

• Armenian: մուրհակ (hy) (murhak)
• Bulgarian: запис на заповед m (zapis na zapoved)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 本票 (zh) (běnpiào), 期票 (zh) (qípiào)

• Czech: směnka (cs) f
• Danish: egenveksel c, solaveksel c, gældsbrev n
• Dutch: orderbriefje n
• Finnish: oma vekseli
• French: billet à ordre (fr) m
• German: Solawechsel m, Eigenwechsel (de) m
• Greek: υποσχετικό γραμμάτιο n (yposchetikó grammátio), γραμμάτιο (el) n (grammátio)
• Indonesian: surat sanggup bayar, surat perjanjian utang
• Italian: pagherò (it) m
• Japanese: 約束手形 (ja) (やくそくてがた, yakusoku tegata), 約手 (やくて, yakute)
• Latin: syngrapha f
• Latvian: parādzīme f
• Macedonian: проме́са f (promésa), соло меница f (solo menica)
• Malay: nota janji, nota janji hutang
• Plautdietsch: Schultbewiess m
• Polish: weksel własny m
• Portuguese: livrança f, nota promissória f
• Punjabi: ਵਸੀਕਾ m (vasīkā)
• Romanian: bilet la ordin f
• Romansch: cambiala propria f
• Russian: ве́ксель (ru) m (vékselʹ), долгова́я распи́ска f (dolgovája raspíska)
• Serbo-Croatian: mjenica (sh) f
• Spanish: pagaré (es) m
• Swedish: löpande skuldebrev n
• Tagalog: pagare, kasulatang pangako
• Thai: ตั๋วสัญญาใช้เงิน (dtǔua-sǎn-yaa-chái-ngən)
• Welsh: addaweb f, nodyn addewid m

See also

• bill of exchange
• IOU