capital account

1. 1.

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

   Broaderaccount

   Part ofbalance of payments

   economics

2. 2.

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

   Broaderaccount

   finance

Questions about capital account

What does capital account mean?

capital account means "(economics) that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's outflow and inflow of financial securities". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is capital account a common word?

capital account 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.