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Promissory note - Financial definition

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Translations:      FR  billet à ordre (n.m.)     ES  pagaré (n.m.)     DE  Eigenwechsel (n.m.) 
Synonym:  note payable

  Concise definition of the term promissory note

A promissory note is a financial debt instrument in which one party promises to pay a certain amount of money to the other, either at a fixed or a determinable future date, or on demand of the payee, under specific terms.

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