Usually means: Debt acknowledgment note; informal promise.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word IOU:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. IOU: Merriam-Webster
  2. IOU: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. IOU: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. IOU: Collins English Dictionary
  5. IOU: Vocabulary.com
  6. IOU, iou: Wordnik
  7. IOU, iou: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. IOU: Wiktionary
  9. IOU: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. IOU: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. IOU: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. IOU, i.o.u: Dictionary.com
  13. I.O.U: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. iou: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. I.O.U, I.O.U. (Freeez song), I.O.U. (Jimmy Dean song), I.O.U. (Lee Greenwood song), I.O.U. (album), IOU (debt), IOU (disambiguation), IOU, I.o.u, Iou: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Iou: Rhymezone
  17. I.O.U, IOU: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. I.O.U: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. iou: FreeDictionary.org
  20. iou: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. IOU: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. iou: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  23. IOU: Merriam-Webster

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. IOU: Accounting Glossary
  4. IOU: Investopedia
  5. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. IOU: Netlingo
  2. SMS Dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. IOU: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. IOU, i.o.u: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  2. Energy Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See ious as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An informal promissory note that is not a negotiable instrument.

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