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 bill
 1. In America (and formerly in England), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand, and used as currency; a bank note.
 2. In England, a note, or a bill of exchange, of a bank, payable to order, and usually at some future specified time. Such bills are negotiable, but form, in the strict sense of the term, no part of the currency.

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 bank bill
      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, banker's bill,
           bank note, banknote, Federal Reserve note, greenback]