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Definition: Bank Account |
Bank AccountNoun1. A fund that a customer has entrusted to a bank and from which they can make withdrawals; "he moved his bank account to a new bank". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bank account."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Money | Bank account, savings account, checking account, money market account, NOW account, time deposit, deposit, demand deposit, super NOW account; certificate of deposit, CD. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bank Account |
| English words defined with "bank account": bank ♦ check, checking account ♦ deposit ♦ personal ♦ savings account. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bank account": arranged overdraft ♦ BRADSTREET ♦ clearing account ♦ FASHION ♦ LOAN INTERVIEWER, MORTGAGE, loan officer ♦ petty bank ♦ respectability ♦ to overdraw, to overdraw an account. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I have instructed my assistant to be paid into your Swiss bank account the sum of ten million dollars each (The Spy Who Loved Me; writing credit: Christopher Wood) I needed him to treat me decently and get a job, and he needed to empty my bank account. (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and Billy Crystal) How do you think your check got into the bank account of a Watergate burglar (All the President's Men; writing credit: Carl Bernstein; Bob Woodward) I've been putting it all in a bank account for your college fees or bail (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond) | |
Lyrics | She likes access to your bank account (Tricky, tricky; performing artist: Lou Bega) Got a bank account bigger than the law should allow (Incomplete; performing artist: Sisqo) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | So far, the vast majority are either debit cards that withdraw money from a bank account, or are credit cards that require security deposits that nearly match the credit limits on the cards. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Papua New Guinea | Associations that wish to open a bank account and conduct financial transactions are required to register for this purpose. (references) |
Azerbaijan | Registration enables a religious organization to maintain a bank account, rent property, and generally act as a legal entity. (references) | |
Belarus | After a series of warnings, the authorities froze the bank account and seized the newsprint and computers of the independent newspaper Pahonia in the period prior to the September election. (references) | |
Economic History | Djibouti | Opening a local bank account is compulsory. (references) |
Bulgaria | This lev account cannot be used as a standard deposit bank account. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | One recent improvement in the banking sector is that, effective June 1, 2000, companies may have more than one bank account. (references) | |
Human Rights | Switzerland | In May in response to a complaint arising from an attempt by local tax authorities to force taxpayers to relinquish previously undisclosed bank account information, the ECHR ruled that the Government could not allow local tax authorities to force such disclosure. (references) |
Trade | Poland | Instead, they may have a Polish bank account denominated in the foreign currency and keep these payments in that account. (references) |
Nepal | Together, Nepal Bank Ltd. and Rastriya Banijya Bank account for 60 percent of the entire banking system's deposits and loans. (references) | |
Travel | Cote D'ivoire | The scam victim is typically asked to pay a small fee to open a bank account, and this is followed by requests for escalating amounts to cover legal expenses and fees. (references) |
Women | Swaziland | A woman generally requires her husband's permission to borrow money, open a bank account, obtain a passport, leave the country, gain access to land, and, in some cases, take a job. (references) |
Congo | Women are required by law to obtain their spouse's permission before engaging in routine legal transactions, such as selling or renting real estate, opening a bank account, accepting employment, or applying for a passport. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RESPECTABILITY, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. |
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Expressions using "bank account": close a bank account ♦ have a bank account ♦ open a bank account. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "bank account"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | bankrekening (banking, banking account). (various references) | |
Arabic | حِساب, الحساب المصرفي. (various references) | |
Chinese | 戶 . (various references) | |
Danish | bankkonto. (various references) | |
Dutch | bankrekening (banking account). (various references) | |
Esperanto | bankokonto (banking account). (various references) | |
Finnish | pankkitili. (various references) | |
French | compte bancaire. (various references) | |
German | bankkonto (account). (various references) | |
Greek | τραπεζικός λογαριασμός. (various references) | |
Hungarian | bankszámla, bankfolyószámla (checking account). (various references) | |
Italian | conto bancario (banking, banking account). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 銀行口座 , 貯金 (deposits and savings), 金 (deposit), 金口座 , 金 (deposit). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎ""う"うざ, よき""うざ, よき" (deposit), よちょき" (deposits and savings). (various references) | |
Manx | coontys banc (bank statement). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ankbay accountay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | conta bancária. (various references) | |
Russian | счет в банке. (various references) | |
Spanish | cuenta bancaria (banking account, open account). (various references) | |
Swedish | bankkonto. (various references) | |
Turkish | banka hesabı (account, banking account). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Bank Account" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bank accoutn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-c-k-n-n-o-t-u" | |
-4 letters: account, backout, bannock, cutback, cutbank, nunatak, outback. | |
-5 letters: cancan, cannot, canton, cobnut, kanban, toucan, uncock, unknot, untack. | |
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