promissory note

Questions about promissory note

What does promissory note mean?

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

What is another word for promissory note?

Close synonyms include note, note of hand. 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 promissory note a common word?

promissory note 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.