accounts receivable

1. 1.

   a creditor's accounts of money owed to him; normally arise from the sale of products or services

   Broaderassets

   plural

Questions about accounts receivable

What does accounts receivable mean?

accounts receivable means "a creditor's accounts of money owed to him; normally arise from the sale of products or services".

Is accounts receivable a common word?

accounts receivable is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.