at sight

Meaning

at sight

As soon as seen, or presented to sight.
payable at sight
to shoot a person at sight

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A letter of credit may be at sight, which means immediate payment upon presentation of documents, or it may be a time or date letter of credit with payment to be made in the future. Source: Internet

Human rights advocate and philanthropist, Trokon Glay, said the order to shoot at sight would violate human rights and could scare travelers and users of the airport, investors, and international partners. Source: Internet

It is likely that they may draw the attention of Indian troops by adopting tactics of air or other incidents, but the orders on shoot at sight would definitely stop them from crossing over. Source: Internet

“The financial sector takes deposits at sight and pays little or no interest on them, and then turns around and lends at nominal rates related to inflation,” he said. Source: Internet

Natural morphemes of languages in this group are rarely altered greatly from their source-language form, but compound and derived words are generally not recognizable at sight by people familiar with the source languages. Source: Internet

SUNY, 1999, pp. 131–132, 148, 153 Sanskrit scholar and former psychoanalyst Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson said that he once met Campbell, and that the two "hated each other at sight". Source: Internet

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