current account

1. 1.

   that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's exports and imports of goods and services and transfer payments

   Broaderaccounting

   Part ofbalance of payments
2. 2.

   a bank account against which the depositor can draw checks that are payable on demand

   Synonymschecking accountchequing account

   Broaderbank account

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Questions about current account

What does current account mean?

current account means "that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's exports and imports of goods and services and transfer payments". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for current account?

Close synonyms include checking account, chequing account. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is current account a common word?

current 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.