checking account
35
2.8
- noun
- /ˈtʃɛkɪŋ əˈkaʊnt/
- US
:
cuenta corriente
- She withdrew cash from her checking account at the bank yesterday.
- savings and checking accounts
If you have a checking account, you are invested.
- If you have a checking account, you are invested.
- So everyone has a checking account and that's it, OK.
- And so he says to the Wells Fargo team, get out there and get me more checking accounts, get me more credit cards.
- I cannot have money in my checking account.
- Not realizing at the time that if I say, hey, you, Danny Jones, you're not allowed to open a checking account in my country.
- What happens to banks is checking accounts are now less profitable, so they look to recoup in other ways.
- And so we need both debt and equity to do that because obviously my partner and I, we don't have that sitting in a checking account.
- But you can get better at saving it by not putting it in a checking account nor savings account.
Examples
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Only one facility required the clients to keep $100 in their checking account.
Academic text (2005) -
I've gotta have a way to get the money out of the checking account.
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Maybe I have something in my checking account.
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You did all this because I opened up a checking account?
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I opened a checking account in your name.
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You may want to consider getting a checking account that has no fees.
Blog text (20) -
How about a checking account with no monthly fees?
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The rest, about 17%, shared a joint checking account to pay for joint expenses.
Blog text (19) -
Say you pay for a couch with a check, but your checking account has no funds.
Blog text (27) -
Lucky for you, the bank sends you this information in your monthly checking account statement.
Blog text (8)
Synonyms
∞
2.1
A record of money received and paid by a person or business
168
1.5
A service from a bank to keep and use your money
1
2.7
A bank record used for everyday payments and cash withdrawals
Antonyms
How Long-Term
- Specialized
564
4.4
- Specialized
3
4.1
50
2.3
- US
35
2.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a bank account for writing checks and for immediate withdrawals' is directly derivable from combining 'check' (issuing a payment instrument) with 'account' (a record or facility for money). The -ing modifier simply specifies the account's function, a compositional and cross-linguistically common pattern that a B1 learner who knows the constituents can infer.
Etymology
Checking account comes from the old use of a paper check. You wrote a check to tell the bank to pay money from your account, so the account used for daily payments became the 'checking account', meaning 'an account for everyday payments'.