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Accommodation Endorsement

An endorsement on a check by a bank customer put there only to get the bank to cash the check for someone else, usually a non-customer. The endorser making the accommodation doesn’t benefit from the check or otherwise use it, but agrees to pay for the check if it bounces.

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