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The person in possession of an instrument, document of title, or security payable to bearer or endorsed in blank. A note payable to “bearer” is payable to any person who successively holds the note bona fide , not by virtue of any assignment of promise, but by an original and direct promise moving from the maker to the “bearer.”

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noun

A person who carries messages or is sent on errands: carrier, conveyer, courier, envoy, messenger, runner, transporter. See over/under.

1. Any horizontal beam, joist, or member which supports a load.
2. A support for a landing or winder in a stair.
3. The ribbon board in balloon framing, which supports second-floor joists.
4. A horizontal member of a scaffold upon which the platform rests and which may be supported by ledgers.

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This entry contains information applicable to United States law only.

One who is the holder or posses- sor of an instrument that is negotiable — for example, a check, a draft, or a note — and upon which a specific payee is not designated.

A negotiable instrument that is payable to "bearer" or to "cash" or to "the order of cash," that is, not naming a payee, is a bearer instrument, and is called "bearer" paper.

For a list of words related to bearer, see:

• Banking and Financial Services - bearer: holder of note or other financial instrument

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See words rhyming with "bearer."

Dansk (Danish)
n. - indehaver

Nederlands (Dutch)
drager, sjouwer, houder, bode, bediende, incasseerder

Français (French)
n. - porteur, porteur (lors de funérailles), serviteur, porteur (d'un chèque), titulaire (d'un passeport), (Bot) (un arbre) qui donne bien, (Constr, Tech) support

Deutsch (German)
n. - Träger, Überbringer

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - κομιστής, κάτοχος

Italiano (Italian)
portatore

Português (Portuguese)
n. - portador (m), titular (m), gato (m) pingado, berço (m), criado (m) particular

Русский (Russian)
курьер, посланец, гонец

Español (Spanish)
n. - soporte, porteador, portador, poseedor

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - bärare, kurir

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
带信人, 持有人, 持票人, 挑夫, 搬运工

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 帶信人, 持有人, 持票人, 挑夫, 搬運工

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 운반인, 심부름꾼, 지참인

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 運搬人, 持参人
adj. - 持参人払いの

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) حامله, حمال‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מוכ"ז, נושא, מניב פרי‬

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