deposit accountnoun [ C ]
uk/dɪˈpɒz.ɪt əˌkaʊnt/us/dɪˈpɑː.zɪt əˌkaʊnt/UK US savings accounta bank account that pays you interest, in which you usually leave money for a long time
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Saving money
- bank
- depositor
- direct deposit
- interest rate
- ISA
- money box
- on deposit idiom
- pension plan
- put
- rainy
- salt sth away
- save
- save/keep money for a rainy day idiom
- saver
- saving
- savings account
- scrimp
- sock
- TESSA
- war chest
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Examples from literature
- But the deposit account is most often kept by people who have to have a reserve of cash quickly available for business purposes.
- But, on writing up our books that night, we found that our deposit account had diminished about sixty-five thousand dollars.
- On their deposit account they receive interest, on their current account they may in some parts of the country receive interest on the average balance kept.
- They must have had, during that winter, an average deposit account of nearly two million dollars, of which seven hundred thousand dollars was in "certificates of deposit," the most stable of all accounts in a bank.
- We could loan, at three per cent. a month, all our own money, say two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and a part of our deposit account.