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This tag is for questions about verbs. Verbs are words that express an action, occurrence, or a state of being. Add this tag to single-word-requests if you are looking for a verb. Add the tag word-usage if you are asking about the usage of the verb.

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Why are checks cancelled when approved?

A friend of mine just asked if I had paid him back for some money he lent me. I told him the check was cancelled on the 9th. Concerned, he asked, "why'd you cancel the check?" I replied, "I didn't …
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Why are checks cancelled when approved?

For fear that my question was going to be closed, I called a friend of mine who is a CPA. It turns out the term "cancelled" in accounting is not the same as the term "cancelled" to lay folks. In acc …
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