acceptance house

noun

variants or accepting house

: a banking institution in England specializing in financing foreign trade by allowing the use of its name as drawee on bills of exchange and by frequently acting also as fiscal agent and financial adviser (as for foreign nations or municipalities) compare merchant banker

Word History

First Known Use

1846, in the meaning defined above

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