open account

Questions about open account

What does open account mean?

open account means "credit extended by a business to a customer". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for open account?

Close synonyms include credit account, charge 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 open account a common word?

open account is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.