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accounts receivable

  • plural
    of account receivable.
    account receivable
    noun
    a claim against a debtor, carried on open account, usually limited to debts due from the sale of goods and services.

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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

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

Additional documents viewed by the Journal show only about $350 million of accounts receivable, compared with about $2.3 billion of accounts-receivable financing.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 15, 2025

First Brands made near-daily payments to Point Bonita for years, as customers paid invoices on the roughly $715 million in accounts receivable that Point Bonita held.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 15, 2025

Your accounts receivable are only worth the value o' the creditors—and some ye hae are nae good.

From Dawson Black: Retail Merchant by Harold Whitehead