checking accountnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈtʃek.ɪŋ əˌkaʊnt/us/ˈtʃek.ɪŋ əˌkaʊnt/US UK current accounta bank account that you can take money from at any time and that usually earns little or no interest
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Banks
- bank
- building society
- central bank
- clearing house
- credit
- credit union
- deposit
- e-bank
- exchange rate
- financial services
- foreign exchange
- gnome
- merchant bank
- pay
- personal identification number
- rate of exchange
- savings and loan association
- statement
- the IMF
- thrift
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Examples from literature
- Child or not, James Holden had been running a checking account by mail for a number of years which could be used as evidence of his good faith and ability.
- With his first check he opened a pay-by-the-item, no-minimum-balance checking account.
- Yes, you could do something with one thousand dollars put into a checking account, and fourteen thousand more waiting behind that on a certificate of deposit.