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Trade draft (finance)


A draft addressed to a commercial enterprise.





forge(2) (iou)



forge verb1. ME.
[Old & mod. French forger from Latin fabricare FABRICATE.]
verb trans. Make, Fashion, construct, (a material thing). obsolete exc. as passing into sense 4. ME.
verb trans. Make (something) in fraudulent imitation of something else; imitate fraudulently, counterfeit, (esp. a document, a signature, a banknote, etc.) in order to pass the fraudulent imitation off as genuine. ME.
R. Buchanan As if I had..forged the laird's name. R. Graves He had forged a document purporting to be a testimonial.
verb trans. Fabricate, invent, (a tale, a lie). Formerly also, coin (a word etc.). LME.
W. Camden Some thinke it to be no ancient name, but forged by the writer of King Arthurs historie. C. Kingsley A charge..forged by that villain.
verb trans. Shape by heating in a forge and hammering; beat into shape. LME.
H. Allen The smith spent the afternoon forging two heavy chains. fig.: B. Pym A link might have been forged between two solitary people.
verb intrans. Work at a forge; do a blacksmith's work. LME.
verb intrans. Commit forgery. Now rare. L16.
forgea'bility noun ability to be forged L19.
forgeable adjective able to be forged LME.
forgeful adjective apt to forge, creative M18-E19.
forger noun a person who forges something, esp. fraudulently LME.
forgerer noun a forger L16-E19.