CAPITAL ACCOUNT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does capital account mean? 

• CAPITAL ACCOUNT (noun)
  The noun CAPITAL ACCOUNT has 2 senses:

1. (economics) that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's outflow and inflow of financial securities

2. (finance) an account of the net value of a business at a specified date

  Familiarity information: CAPITAL ACCOUNT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPITAL ACCOUNT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(economics) that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's outflow and inflow of financial securities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

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

account; account statement; accounting (a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance)

Domain category:

economic science; economics; political economy (the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management)

Holonyms ("capital account" is a part of...):

balance of international payments; balance of payments (a system of recording all of a country's economic transactions with the rest of the world over a period of one year)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(finance) an account of the net value of a business at a specified date

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

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

account; account statement; accounting (a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance)

Domain category:

finance (the branch of economics that studies the management of money and other assets)