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checking account

noun

  1. a bank deposit against which checks can be drawn by the depositor.


checking account

noun

  1. the US name for current account


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Word History and Origins

Origin of checking account1

An Americanism dating back to 1920–25

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Example Sentences

If you have $500 or less in your checking account, a $10 a month fee is eating a substantial part of your capital.

It regulated the interest on every checking account and the commission on every purchase or sale of stock.

When the gods close a door on relationships, they open a personal checking account.

There are plenty of people earning less than $30,000 a year with a checking account.

How much do those without a checking account pay for the privilege of having their paychecks cashed?

With his first check he opened a pay-by-the-item, no-minimum-balance checking account.

The checking account of the latter was at this time overdrawn to the amount of $3,500.

All the state's money is in the Dodd banks on the checking-account basis—and the gang is letting it out at six percent.

In the bank he had as a checking account a deposit somewhat in excess of two thousand dollars.

Your checking account record is a model, in just this sense, of how many real dollars and cents you have in the bank.

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