Customarily, if you borrow $10 for lunch from a coworker, writing IOU $10 on a yellow sticky note acts as a legal promissory note that you will repay said amount on payday.
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Iou
Synonyms for "iou" (45 found)
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Noun(1 words)
debt acknowledgment
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When David couldn’t afford to match the money in the poker pot, he added an IOU for the remaining amount instead.
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