long account

American  

noun

Finance.

1. the account of a customer who buys securities or commodities on margin.

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Etymology

Origin of long account

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

Rice gives us a long account of how Janet Reno, the attorney general in 2000 and a Floridian herself, struggled with the González case, eventually returning the boy to his father in Cuba.

From Washington Post

Amy was taken possession of by Mrs. Lamb, with whom she was a favorite, and forced to hear a long account of Lucretia’s last attack, while three delightful young gentlemen hovered near, waiting for a pause when they might rush in and rescue her.

From Literature

“Good day, Pip,” said Mr. Jaggers, offering his hand; “glad to have seen you. In writing by post to Magwitch—in New South Wales—or in communicating with him through Provis, have the goodness to mention that the particulars and vouchers of our long account shall be sent to you, together with the balance; for there is still a balance remaining. Good-day, Pip!”

From Literature

“My heart started to beat again on its own, prompted into action by the warm blood’s effect on the heart’s own internal pacemaker,” Kaiser wrote in a long account for The Post’s Sunday magazine.

From Washington Post

In December 2016 a Swiss news site called Das Magazine published a long account of how Cambridge Analytica had worked with researchers at the University of Cambridge to gather personal information on millions of Facebook users and deploy it to position political advertisements on Facebook.

From The Guardian