IOU

Example Sentences

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Essentially, you borrow from the account and create an IOU to yourself.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 14, 2026

If the players acknowledge the worth of the IOU and its holder bets it as if it were cash, it must be accepted at face value by the pot’s winner.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

If the IOU isn’t redeemed in good time, the players have a problem.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

A bond is essentially an IOU - in return for an investor buying the bond and lending money, governments pay interest.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2025

It was a photocopy of a handwritten note: IOU one Roman praetor.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan