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Financial

Financial words.

All sorts of words that relate to money and finances.

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ATM

An ATM is an Automatic Teller Machine. You put your keycard or credit card into it to deposit or withdraw money.

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Bank

A bank is a place you go to deposit or withdraw money, or ask for a loan to buy a house or car. Bank buildings are not as common as they used to be, as you can now do a lot of banking via an ATM or over the Internet.

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Bill

A bill is a document that says how much money needs to be paid for some goods or services.

It might also mean paper money, like a twenty dollar bill.

It might also be another word for a bird's beak.

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Buy

You buy something when you give someone else some money in exchange for it. The man in the picture is in a shop buying some goods.

The opposite of buy is sell. The past tense of buy is bought.

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Cash

Cash is money in the form of coins and notes that you can hold in your hand.

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Cent

A cent, also called a penny in some countries, is one hundredth (1/100th) of a dollar.

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Check

Check means to restrain or hold back.

It can also mean to inspect something. The man in the picture is checking in his bag to see if he has forgotten anything.

It might also mean a kind of repeating pattern.

Check is also another spelling of cheque.

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Cheque

A cheque, also spelt check in some countries, is a special piece of paper that represents an amount of money. It has information on it saying which bank account the money comes from, who owns the account and how much money it represents.

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Coin

Coins are a type of money that are round and made from metal. Coins usually have the date they were made, the country they are currency of, the amount of money they are worth and some pictures of people or animals stamped on the sides.

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Credit card

A credit card is something you can use to buy things if you do not have any money of your own. You then pay the money back in instalments, or all at once if you want. If you take a long time to pay it back, you get charged extra money in the form of interest.

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