What's the difference between indorse and indorsement?

Indorse


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cover the back of; to load or burden.
  • (v. t.) To write upon the back or outside of a paper or letter, as a direction, heading, memorandum, or address.
  • (v. t.) To write one's name, alone or with other words, upon the back of (a paper), for the purpose of transferring it, or to secure the payment of a /ote, draft, or the like; to guarantee the payment, fulfillment, performance, or validity of, or to certify something upon the back of (a check, draft, writ, warrant of arrest, etc.).
  • (v. t.) To give one's name or support to; to sanction; to aid by approval; to approve; as, to indorse an opinion.

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Indorsement


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of writing on the back of a note, bill, or other written instrument.
  • (n.) That which is written on the back of a note, bill, or other paper, as a name, an order for, or a receipt of, payment, or the return of an officer, etc.; a writing, usually upon the back, but sometimes on the face, of a negotiable instrument, by which the property therein is assigned and transferred.
  • (n.) Sanction, support, or approval; as, the indorsement of a rumor, an opinion, a course, conduct.

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