stop payment
nounDefinition of stop payment
: a depositor's order to a bank to refuse to honor a specified check drawn by him or her
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The contest people were very nice and just stopped payment on the check and gave her another check. — Judy Buchenot, Naperville Sun, "Suburban Cooks: Mints go from trash to treasured cookies," 13 July 2018 In 2011, Sinovel stopped payment on a large order to AMSC and that company later learned that its copyrighted software was still showing up in Sinovel wind turbines, including some installed not far from AMSC's Massachusetts headquarters. — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Chinese firm fined $1.5 million in theft of trade secrets from Wisconsin computer firm," 6 July 2018 The company requested that its customers stop payments after it was placed under U.S. sanctions. — Brandon Kochkodin, Bloomberg.com, "Rusal Customers Owed the Company $396 Million as Sanctions Levied," 9 Apr. 2018 His nephew stopped payment on 21 checks after learning what was going on. — Mark Davis, kansascity, "The sweepstakes no one ever won: Feds finally target $100 million KC-based schemes | The Kansas City Star," 27 Apr. 2018 After a repeal failed in Congress, Trump stopped payments to reimburse insurers for subsidizing copayments and deductibles, thereby boosting premiums. — Washington Post, "Sign-ups show health law’s staying power in Trump era," 18 Dec. 2017 After a repeal failed in Congress, Trump stopped payments to reimburse insurers for subsidizing copayments and deductibles, thereby boosting premiums. — Washington Post, "Sign-ups show health law’s staying power in Trump era," 18 Dec. 2017 After a repeal failed in Congress, Trump stopped payments to reimburse insurers for subsidizing copayments and deductibles, thereby boosting premiums. — Washington Post, "Sign-ups show health law’s staying power in Trump era," 18 Dec. 2017 After a repeal failed in Congress, Trump stopped payments to reimburse insurers for subsidizing copayments and deductibles, thereby boosting premiums. — Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar, The Seattle Times, "Sign-ups show health law’s staying power in Trump era," 16 Dec. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'stop payment.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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