honor check



honor someone's check

to accept someone's personal check in payment of an obligation. The clerk at the store wouldn't honor my check. I had to pay cash. The bank didn't honor your check when I tried to deposit it. Please give me cash.
See also: check, honor

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
JoisseJOISEnglish (Rare)
Tayyib-Arabic
Benediktabe-ne-DIK-tahGerman
Remaorə-MAWLimburgish
Rudi-German, Hungarian
JoselynJAHS-lin, JAHS-ə-linEnglish (Modern)