bank account

American  

noun

• bank accounts
  plural

1. an account with a bank.

2. balance standing to the credit of a depositor at a bank.

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bank account British  

noun

1. an account created by the deposit of money at a bank by a customer

2. the amount of moneys credited or debited to a depositor at a bank

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• bank accounts
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of bank account

First recorded in 1790–1800

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

bank account

So I’ll go there, look around and abuse my bank account a little bit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Opening a local bank account can also inadvertently create additional reporting obligations.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Mac had been using Grok Bot, SpaceXAI’s “always-on agent,” giving it read-only access to his bank account.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The reality is that this account in question doesn’t exist in the way you or I think of a bank account.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

I also opened a bank account, rented a post office box, and bought a plastic bowl and a spoon at Woolworth’s, a store whose name I recognized from London.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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