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acceptance house

noun
variants: or accepting house

Definition of acceptance house

: a banking institution in England specializing in financing foreign trade by allowing the use of its name as drawee on bills of exchange and by frequently acting also as fiscal agent and financial adviser (as for foreign nations or municipalities) — compare merchant banker

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1846, in the meaning defined above

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