credit accountnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkred.ɪt əˌkaʊnt/us/ˈkred.ɪt əˌkaʊnt/UK US charge accounta formal agreement between a shop or other business and a customer, in which the customer can take goods and pay the shop or business for them at a later time
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Renting & hiring
- account
- charge account
- charter
- chartered
- deposit
- hire
- hire purchase
- hire sth/sb out
- hp
- installment plan
- layaway
- lease
- lessee
- lessor
- rent
- rental
- the never-never
Examples from literature
- All I wish to do further is to give a brief synopsis of the debit and credit accounts for each of the succeeding four years.
- And even your philanthropy, practised in a world where everything is based on competition, must have a debit as well as a credit account.
- And we have a long credit account at the grocery, which we can't pay?