charge accountnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈtʃɑːdʒ əˌkaʊnt/us/ˈtʃɑːrdʒ əˌkaʊnt/U UK credit accounta formal agreement between a shop or other business and a customer, in which the customer can take goods and pay the shop or business for them at a later time
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Renting & hiring
- account
- charter
- chartered
- credit account
- deposit
- hire
- hire purchase
- hire sth/sb out
- hp
- installment plan
- layaway
- lease
- lessee
- lessor
- rent
- rental
- the never-never
Examples from literature
- If the charge account is to remain open until the next crop comes in, on some rainy day he will transcribe the charge to his day-book.
- Therefore, to avoid this whole transaction, people who have not charge accounts, should order the meal ahead, and at the same time pay for it in advance, including the waiter's tip.
- We had no charge account there.
- You'd get on well without your maid and your car and your father's charge accounts at all the shops, wouldn't you?