bank note
  鈔票
  bank·note, bank note
  1. A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to the bearer on demand.  See also sense 4.
  Note: ☞ In the United States popularly called a bank bill.
  2. Formerly, a promissory note made by a banker, or banking company, payable to a specified person at a fixed date; a bank bill. See Bank bill, 2. [Obs.]
  3. A promissory note payable at a bank.
  4. A promissory note issued by an authorized bank, payable to the bearer on demand and intended to circulate as government-authorized money; in the United States such notes may only be issued by a Federal Reserve Bank; as, he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty banknotes.
  Syn: -- bill, note, government note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, Federal Reserve note, greenback.
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  bank note
       n : a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central
           bank); "he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes"
           [syn: bill, note, government note, bank bill, banker's
           bill, banknote, Federal Reserve note, greenback]