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quedan

quedan noun: warehouse receipt issued for stored commodities, especially sugar.

Noun

quedan (plural quedans)

  1. (Philippines) Warehouse receipt issued for stored commodities, especially sugar.
    • ARTICLE 1636. In the preceding articles in this Title governing the sale of goods, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires: (1) “Document of title to goods” includes any bill of lading, dock warrant, “quedan,” or warehouse receipt or order for the delivery of goods, or any other...1949, Republic Act No. 386

Forms of quedan

pluralquedans

Origin of quedan

Borrowed from Spanish quedan, ellipsis of quedan [depositadas] (“there are hereby deposited”), a phrase that appeared on the receipt. The term quedan is the third-person plural present indicative of quedar (“to remain”), from Old Spanish quedar, from Vulgar Latin *quētāre, from Late Latin quiētō, from quiētus (“quiet, calm”) + -ō (verbal suffix).

Questions about quedan

What does quedan mean?
Quedan means warehouse receipt issued for stored commodities, especially sugar.
What part of speech is quedan?
Quedan is a noun.
What is the plural of quedan?
The plural of quedan is quedans.

Words near quedan in the dictionary

  1. quectograms
  2. quectosecond
  3. quectoseconds
  4. Queda
  5. Quedah
  6. quedan
  7. Quedda
  8. Queddah
  9. Quedgeley
  10. Quedlinburg
  11. queeb

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