Noun
a promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time
Source: WordNetSummer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January. Hal Borland
Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Hank Stram
A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silver. P. J. O'Rourke
I can't pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me. Pat Conroy
I had to co-sign his note at the bank Source: Internet
The apex socio-cultural body of the people of the Niger Delta region, Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s Democracy Day address, to the nation, as rhetoric, apathetic, and largely, a promissory note. Source: Internet