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 • Mar. 18, 2022

But, according to a long account that Ms. Gui published on Medium, the meeting was far from a typical diplomatic negotiation.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2019

The week before this Washington gathering, I sent Banks a long account of the Black and White Ball.

From The Guardian • Jan. 20, 2017

Instead, he began with a long account of his family’s history in the U.S.—his father’s immigration from Cuba, his mother picking up a degree from prestigious Rice University.

From Newsweek • Mar. 23, 2015

And with that Glóin embarked on a long account of the doings of the Dwarf-kingdom.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien