giro
- n a check given by the British government to someone who is unemployed; it can be cashed either at a bank or at the post office
- n a British financial system in which a bank or a post office transfers money from one account to another when they receive authorization to do so
- Anyone who can fly an ordinary airplane can, with little additional instruction, fly an autogiro.
- Sooner or later it was inevitable that, as autogiros came into common use, there should be crackups.
- Excepting the case of an experimental craft in France last year, 'giro-builders can still claim that no occupant has been killed by a 'giro crash.