note of hand

Questions about note of hand

What does note of hand mean?

note of hand means "a promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time".

What is another word for note of hand?

Close synonyms include note, promissory note. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is note of hand a common word?

note of hand is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.