stop payment

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   a depositor's order to a bank to refuse payment on a check

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Questions about stop payment

What does stop payment mean?

stop payment means "a depositor's order to a bank to refuse payment on a check".

Is stop payment a common word?

stop payment 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.