staledate
v.— «The general manager should…realize cash wherever possible for all stale-dated and other checks.» —“Mineral County Grand Jury Files Investigation Report” in Hawthorne Reno Evening Gazette (Nev.) Sept. 9, 1943. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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