BANK ACCOUNT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bank account mean? 

• BANK ACCOUNT (noun)
  The noun BANK ACCOUNT has 1 sense:

1. a fund that a customer has entrusted to a bank and from which the customer can make withdrawals

  Familiarity information: BANK ACCOUNT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BANK ACCOUNT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fund that a customer has entrusted to a bank and from which the customer can make withdrawals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Context example:

he moved his bank account to a new bank

Hypernyms ("bank account" is a kind of...):

account; business relationship (a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bank account"):

giro account (an account at a post office that can be used in similar ways to an account at a bank)

checking account; chequing account; current account (a bank account against which the depositor can draw checks that are payable on demand)

savings account (a bank account that accumulates interest)

 Context examples 

You may realize that you need advice how to manage the generous income that will soon be pouring into your bank account.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Alarmed by the increasing devastation, Hull learned that keeping a horse in this region serves a similar function as maintaining a bank account.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)

A depleted bank account had caused me to postpone my holiday, and as to my companion, neither the country nor the sea presented the slightest attraction to him.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Oh, these bourgeois! When I was broke, I was not fit to be seen with his sister. When I have a bank account, he brings her to me."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

March 27 is another stellar day to see a large sum of money enter your bank account, either as fees or for making a big sale, such as for property.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He actually opened a bank account, where, without a debt in the world, he had several hundred dollars to his credit.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Work will be very busy all month, and that should help you replenish your bank account.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

And so it was that Maria became a landlord and the sole owner of a dairy, with two hired men to do the work for her and a bank account that steadily increased despite the fact that her whole brood wore shoes and went to school.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Either way, more money will likely be heading to your bank account.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

There is no need to empty your bank account buying lotto tickets, for if you are lucky, you are lucky—it seems money will find its way to your door at year’s end, but I cannot tell you exactly the source.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)