The phrase "wad of banknotes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a bundle or stack of cash, typically in the context of discussing money or transactions.
Example: "He pulled out a wad of banknotes from his pocket to pay for the expensive dinner."
Alternatives: "bundle of cash" or "stack of bills."
He opens a drawer, pulls out a wad of banknotes, and tosses them in my direction.
Hitting her repeatedly with a wad of banknotes, he said: "Don't you want money?
"It saves on paperwork," the owner of a local garage said after replacing my clutch and relieving me of a huge wad of banknotes.
This shindig apparently went on until 4.30am, was attended by at least one of the players' mothers and featured a squad member waving a wad of banknotes at an admiring photographer.
You settle up with a wad of banknotes and get a discount.
Which would you miss more on your next trip across Europe — your plastic or a wad of banknotes?
A huge amount of business is transacted in the "black" economy, in stapled wads of banknotes.
We're aware of the ghastly monetary quality of it all as wads of banknotes change hands.
But its triumph was tainted by allegations that it and its allies bribed members of parliament to back it with various inducements, including wads of banknotes.
(Since the largest denomination is only 100 bolívares, currency transactions involve fat wads of banknotes).This system is an invitation to fraud: the well-connected who are assigned cheap dollars send them abroad or cash them on the black market.
As soon as he was appointed, John Gollan, his predecessor as general secretary, confided a big secret: that ever since 1956, the party had been receiving money from the Soviet Union – wads and wads of banknotes, handed over in clandestine meetings between an embassy official and Gollan's deputy Reuben Falber.
