windbill

A Dictionary of Finance and Banking;      5 words ...windbill See ACCOMMODATION BILL .

kite

A Dictionary of Accounting;      30 words ...kite An informal name for an accommodation bill . Kite-flying or kiting is the discounting of a kite (accommodation bill) at a bank, knowing that the person on whom it is drawn will dishonour it.

accommodation party

A Dictionary of Accounting;      19 words ...accommodation party The person who signs an accommodation bill as drawer, acceptor, or endorser and acts as the guarantor.

accommodation bill

A Dictionary of Law;      41 words ...accommodation bill A bill of exchange accepted by an accommodation party, i.e. a person who signs without receiving value and for the purpose of lending his name (i.e. his credit) to someone else. An accommodation party is liable on the bill to a holder for value.

pounds 352,000 SUB BILL.(News)

Sunday Mirror (London, England);  August 6, 2000 ;     28 words ...THEcrew of the crippled Royal Navy nuclear sub HMSTireless have run up a pounds 352,000 accommodation bill in Gibraltar waiting for it to be repaired, it was revealed last night.

Top table prices

Sunday Star-Times;  February 25, 2001 ;     203 words ......incoming government which made a very big election plank out of its plans to cut back on unnecessary spending, such an accommodation bill for a deputy big-wig smacks of "Do as I say, not as I do". One would not expect our number two lady in London to be checking...

Fed: PM's Bali trip cost too much: Opposition

AAP General News (Australia);  May 22, 2008 ;     122 words ......500-thousand dollar cost of KEVIN RUDD's trip to Bali to ratify the Kyoto Protocol .. is absolutely staggering. The travel and accommodation bill included 40-thousand dollars for hospitality costs. Opposition frontbencher NICK MINCHIN has told Fairfax radio people...

London acceptance credit

A Dictionary of Finance and Banking;      78 words ......bill of exchange on the foreign buyer. The accepted bill is then pledged to a merchant bank in London, which accepts an accommodation bill drawn by the exporter. The acceptance can be discounted on the bank's reputation, to provide the exporter with immediate...

Qld: Taxpayers billed for gay weekend

AAP General News (Australia);  December 7, 2000 ;     170 words ...AAP General News (Australia) 12-07-2000 Qld: Taxpayers billed for gay weekend A court has been told taxpayers footed the accommodation bill when Queensland's Children's Commissioner flew his young gay lover interstate for a sightseeing weekend. Sixty-six-year-o...

Vic: Architect's travel costs not excessive, government

AAP General News (Australia);  May 4, 2004 ;     325 words ......05-04-2004 Vic: Architect's travel costs not excessive, government MELBOURNE, May 4 AAP - A $725,000 taxpayer-funded travel and accommodation bill racked up by an Italian architect hired to revamp the National Gallery of Victoria was not excessive, the state government...

Fed: PM's Bali trip cost too much: opposition

AAP General News (Australia);  May 22, 2008 ;     176 words ......staggering" the $500,000 cost of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's trip to Bali to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. The travel and accommodation bill included $40,000 on hospitality costs. Opposition frontbencher Nick Minchin - a finance minister in the previous Howard...

In the lap of luxury; Taxpayers' [pounds]45,000 bill as Skibo hosts bash.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  February 28, 2001 ;     424 words ......Sutherland is to host a conference for 50 top civil servants from Scotland and Scandinavia - at taxpayers' expense. The accommodation bill for the bureaucrats' four-night stay at the Scottish Nordic Conference in the Highlands' most luxurious hotel retreat...

In the lap of luxury; Taxpayers' [pounds sterling]45,000 bill as Skibo...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  February 28, 2001 ;     437 words ......Sutherland is to host a conference for 50 top civil servants from Scotland and Scandinavia - at taxpayers' expense. The accommodation bill for the bureaucrats' four-night stay at the Scottish Nordic Conference in the Highlands' most luxurious hotel retreat...

[pounds sterling]240,000a-year bill to protect the rapist who won the...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  September 9, 2005 ;     549 words ...Byline: BEN TAYLOR TAXPAYERS are footing a [pounds sterling]240,000 annual security and accommodation bill to protect lottery-winning rapist Iorworth Hoare. The cash is being spent on a small army of probation officers, police, minders...

SENATE COMMITTEE RELEASES ASSEMBLYMAN SCHAER RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATION BILL

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 29, 2007 ;     294 words ...The New Jersey Assembly's Democrats issued the following news release: A Senate panel today released a bill sponsored by Assemblyman Gary S. Schaer that would prevent hospitals and other health care facilities from requiring patients or their family members to sign admission papers at times when