cut a check
idiom
US
: to write a check and give it to someone
The company cut him a check and he cashed it.
Examples of cut a check in a Sentence
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Holt’s rebate application has now been approved and EFI instructed to cut a check, Mass Save said.
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Sean P. Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
But Murdaugh allegedly cut a check in 2012 made payable to Palmetto State Bank, and the man’s family never saw any of the funds.
—Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2022
In an attempt to mollify its critics, the Trump Organization each year cut a check to the U.S. Treasury for what the company said were its profits from foreign governments.
—Zach Everson, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
Bethune, like many north Minneapolis schools, lacks a formal Parent Teacher Association that could cut a check for such items.
—Mara Klecker, Star Tribune, 28 June 2021
The next day the public office run by Greenberg cut a check for that amount to Greenberg’s private company.
—Martin E. Comas, orlandosentinel.com, 15 Aug. 2020
Considering how the presence of Guillermo del Toro’s name in the title undoubtedly boosted this film’s Oscar bona fides, should this campaign cut a check to Robert Zemeckis?
—Vulture, 10 Mar. 2023
Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, cut a check for $250.
—cleveland, 16 Apr. 2021
The tax preparer wants a refund deposited into one of her accounts and then plans to cut a check and send the taxpayers their refund.
—Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2021
Sean P. Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
But Murdaugh allegedly cut a check in 2012 made payable to Palmetto State Bank, and the man’s family never saw any of the funds.
—Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2022
In an attempt to mollify its critics, the Trump Organization each year cut a check to the U.S. Treasury for what the company said were its profits from foreign governments.
—Zach Everson, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
Bethune, like many north Minneapolis schools, lacks a formal Parent Teacher Association that could cut a check for such items.
—Mara Klecker, Star Tribune, 28 June 2021
The next day the public office run by Greenberg cut a check for that amount to Greenberg’s private company.
—Martin E. Comas, orlandosentinel.com, 15 Aug. 2020
Considering how the presence of Guillermo del Toro’s name in the title undoubtedly boosted this film’s Oscar bona fides, should this campaign cut a check to Robert Zemeckis?
—Vulture, 10 Mar. 2023
Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, cut a check for $250.
—cleveland, 16 Apr. 2021
The tax preparer wants a refund deposited into one of her accounts and then plans to cut a check and send the taxpayers their refund.
—Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2021
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