indorsement
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Many bills, both domestic and foreign, are at last presented for payment quite covered with indorsements, each of which represents either a fresh discounting, or a pecuniary transaction in which the bill has performed the functions of money."
- "More recently the Bethlehem Steel Company, presumably with the indorsement of the Washington Government, offered to China, without demanding any security, an enormous sum for the construction of a dockyard at Mawei, near Foochow. This scheme, however, can not be easily effected, because Mawei is situated in a province where China, in virture of a treaty with Japan, has no liberty to grant a concession of this nature to any foreign Power."
Etymology
Etymology tree English indorse Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English indorsement From indorse + -ment.