dormant account

1. 1.

   a savings account showing no activity (other than posting interest) for some specified period

   “the dormant account reverted to the state under escheat laws”

   Broadersavings account

Questions about dormant account

What does dormant account mean?

dormant account means "a savings account showing no activity (other than posting interest) for some specified period".

Is dormant account a common word?

dormant 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.