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If you have no checks with you, the company will provide a counter check.

"The counters check in and I tell them I have one or two other things on my mind at this point," she said.

The girl behind the counter checked her ticket and then began tapping away on her computer terminal.

Blank check was also commonly used as a synonym for counter check.

He was handed a pad of a dozen counter checks, which were twice the size of an American check.

Marker - An i.o.u. or counter check against the checking account of a person who has been granted credit.

Railway signalling: Counter checking and staff token.

A counter check is a bank cheque given to customers who have run out of cheques or whose cheques are not yet available.

"It's important to us that people know that evidence handling is going to be done correctly, that there's a system of checks and counter checks."

Keeping the books straight means keeping tabs on piles of cash, chips, tokens and counter checks issued to players using credit accounts or charge cards.

Once you have established credit at a casino, you can obtain money in increments of $500 with a "marker," a form of i.o.u. also known as a counter check.

Mohommad Ghori was never able to rule ajmer since even after death of prithviraj it was ruled by chauhan dynasty and in delhi he never returned once can counter check this fact.

He noted that compulsive gambling figures in casino employee violations, including a case today in which an employee's license was suspended after he tried to steal counter checks after gambling at a blackjack table in violation of regulations.

Miss Woodworth casually blackmails the assistant district attorney ("the son of my oldest friend") into engineering a suspended sentence on a lesser charge, and blithely offers to write a counter check to the store to cover the amount of the take.

He was then informed it would be a week or two before checks with his name printed thereon would be available; in the meantime, he should feel free to use counter checks; "the tellers will be alerted to the situation."

And it should not be confused with a counter check, which is a non-personalized check provided by the bank for the convenience of a customer in making withdrawals or payments, but which is not guaranteed and is functionally equivalent to a personal check.

Businesses would have pads of counter check which did not even have the bank specified on them - the customer had to not only fill in the value of the check, the date, and their signature, but also had to designate the bank on which funds were to be drawn.