Also used in a more common way to refer to meet at another time as in a date or a meeting.

A promise that an unaccepted offer will be renewed in the future, as in I can't come to dinner Tuesday but hope you'll give me a rain check. This term comes from baseball, where in the 1880s it became the practice to offer paying spectators a rain check entitling them to future admission for a game that was postponed or ended early owing to bad weather. By the early 1900s the term was transferred to tickets for other kinds of entertainment, and later to a coupon entitling a customer to buy, at a later date and at the same price, a sale item temporarily out of stock. WordNet: rain checkTopHome > Library > Literature & Language > WordNet Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: a promise that an unaccepted offer will be renewed in the future

Meaning #2: a ticket stub entitling the holder to admission to a future event if the scheduled event was cancelled due to rain