stop payment

Instruct a bank not to honor a check one has drawn, as in If that check was lost, we'll have to stop payment on it before issuing another. This usage was first recorded in 1722.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ionathan	-	Biblical Greek, Biblical Latin
Hei&Eth;RÚN	-	Norse Mythology, Icelandic
Serhat	-	Turkish
Rebekka	re-BE-kah (German), RE-bek-kah (Finnish)	German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, Finnish, Biblical Greek
Oswin	AHZ-win	English (Rare)
Ganbaatar	-	Mongolian