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indorsement en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English indorse Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English indorsement From indorse + -ment.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, archaic) Archaic spelling of endorsement.
   alt of endorsement
   • Many bills, both domestic and foreign, are at last presented for payment quite covered with indorsements, each of which represents either a fresh discounting, or a pecuniary transaction in which the bill has performed the functions of money. 1871, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, p. 46:
   • More recently the Bethlehem Steel Company, presumably with the indorsement of the Washington Government, offered to China, without demanding any security, an enormous sum for the construction of a dockyard at Mawei, near Foochow. This scheme, however, can not be easily effected, because Mawei is situated in a province where China, in virture of a treaty with Japan, has no liberty to grant a concession of this nature to any foreign Power. 1914 July 25, Tokyo Jiji correspondent, quotee, “Japan's Fear of a Chino-American Entente”, in The Literary Digest, volume XLIX, number 4, Funk & Wagnalls Company, page 144, column 2:

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