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checking account

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noun
  1. a bank deposit against which checks can be drawn by the depositor.
Compare savings account.

Origin of checking account

An Americanism dating back to 1920–25
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Related Words for checking account

deposit, funds

Examples from the Web for checking account

Historical Examples of checking account

  • No personal papers, no letters from a yearning boy friend in the old home town, no savings or checking-account passbook.

    Twelve Times Zero

    Howard Carleton Browne

  • 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.

    The Landloper

    Holman Day

British Dictionary definitions for checking account

checking account

noun
  1. the US name for current account
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