account receivable
noun
a claim against a debtor, carried on open account, usually limited to debts due from the sale of goods and services.
accounts receivable
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pluralof account receivable.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In its last report, Microsoft said it recorded $24.1 billion of revenue from OpenAI last year, including revenue-sharing payments, along with $6 billion of accounts receivable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Recently, he highlighted that Palantir’s accounts receivable have been growing faster than revenue for nine of the last 12 quarters.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026
The company was the lead lender on a more-than $400 million credit agreement with a telecom entrepreneur, Bankim Brahmbhatt, accepting as collateral accounts receivable the executive’s firm had acquired from other businesses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
As Cuba never paid, bills were booked as accounts receivable and then written down by each new Mexican government every six years when the cycle started again, Monroy said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
He is forced, therefore, to go to his banker and, on the basis of his accounts receivable, to offer his own note and thus to obtain release of the capital otherwise temporarily beyond reach....
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips
