money order

Noun

 * 1)  A directive to pay a prespecified amount of money from prepaid funds, making it a more trusted method of payment than a check.
 * 2) * 1965, Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia No. 51 - 1965, |%22money+orders%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jgiyT--LMYrKmQWwztWYCQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22money%20order%22|%22money%20orders%22%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 589,
 * The issue of money orders and postal notes is regulated by sections 74-79 of the Post and Telegraph Act 1901—1961. The maximum amount for which a single money order payable within Australia may be obtained is £40, but additional orders will be issued upon request when larger amounts are to be remitted. The maximum amount permitted to be sent by any one person to a person or persons outside Australia is £A.10 a week. A postal note is not available for a sum larger than twenty shillings.
 * 1) * 2007, Gary B. Magee, Andrew S. Thompson, ‘Migrapounds’: Remittance Flows Within the British World, c. 1875—1913, Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw, Stuart Macintyre (editors), Britishness Abroad: Transnational Movements and Imperial Cultures, |%22money+orders%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jgiyT--LMYrKmQWwztWYCQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22money%20order%22|%22money%20orders%22%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 47,
 * In the UK, a Money Order Office was formed in 1838, a separate and specialised department of the Royal Mail that had its origins in an officially sanctioned private business carried on from the late eighteenth century.9By 1873, a reliable international money order service was in full operation between the United Kingdom and the majority of its colonies,10 as well as with a number of other countries, not least the USA.11

Synonyms

 * (postal) remittance (slip)
 * (postal) transfer (slip)
 * (postal) pay-in slip
 * (postal) pay-in slip

Translations

 * Afrikaans: poswissel
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, postiosoitus
 * French:, mandat postal
 * German: Geldbrief,
 * Hungarian: készpénzátutalási megbízás,, , sárga csekk, rózsaszín csekk
 * Indonesian:, wesel pos
 * Italian: vaglia postale
 * Japanese:
 * Lao: ມັງດາ
 * Malay: wang pos
 * Norwegian: postanvisning
 * Plautdietsch: Postjelt
 * Russian: де́нежный перево́д
 * Spanish: giro postal
 * Swedish: postanvisning
 * Tagalog: hiro postal
 * Thai: ธนาณัติ