单词 | to close an account |
释义 | > as lemmasto close an account (d) to open an account: to set up a new account, as at a bank. Similarly to close an account. Also figurative. ΚΠ a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) I. 458 This Bank..is a general Cash-keeper..: every one paying ten Guilders at the opening of his account.] 1739 R. Hayes Negociator's Mag. (ed. 4) xi. 302 He is obliged to pay a considerable Sum of Money for having an Account opened for him. 1759 S. Johnson Let. 18 Feb. (1992) i. 183 Kitty may close her mistress's account and begin her own. 1833 H. Martineau Berkeley the Banker i. i. 7 He waited in some impatience the opportunity of learning with what bank this great merchant meant to open an account. 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. iii. 29 Pen thought of opening an account at a banker's. 1932 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 1 Dec. in Yours, Plum (1990) iv. 115 I am going to open an account for seven hundred quid at your bank . 1949 P. H. Buck Coming of Maori iv. iv. 516 Thus death closed the account of the body, and the soul (wairua) entered the spirit land (reinga) with a clean sheet and without apprehension. 2001 M. Blake 24 Karat Schmooze xxi. 240 He had opened a new holding account in the name of ‘Complete Computers’. < as lemmas |
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