Lexic.us

Definition of Charge account

1. Noun. Credit extended by a business to a customer.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Charge Account

Literary usage of Charge account

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. John Sherman's Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet by John Sherman (1895)
"... Free Circulation of Gold After the 1853 Act— No Truth in the " Demonetization " Charge — Account of the Bill Revising the Laws Relative to the Mint, ..."

2. Forms of Judgments and Orders in the High Court of Justice and Court of by Cecil Clare Marston Dale, Henry Wilmot Seton, Great Britain Court of Appeal, Great Britain High Court of Justice. Chancery Division, W. Clowes (1893)
"Public Health Act, 1875—Improvement Expenses declared a Charge—Account. THE application by originating summons of the Tottenham Local Board of Health, ..."

3. New Collection Methods: A Systematic Treatment of the Place of Collections by Edward Hall Gardner (1918)
"What Is the Meaning of a charge account? There are two reasons why the retailer cannot extend credit to his customers in the same way that a wholesaler or a ..."

4. The Business of the Household by Clarence Wilbur Taber, Sophronia Maria Elliott, Mary Bosworth Stocking, Ninian Hetrick Welch, William Andrew Durgin (1922)
"status of the customer. Absurd as such things really are, they cannot be gainsaid. charge account customers do receive more attention ..."

5. Business English: A Practice Book by Rose Buhlig (1914)
"You will find this a most convenient arrangement because it permits you to have a charge account without the usual hardship of payment at a fixed time. ..."

6. A Manual of Home-making by Martha Van Rensselaer, Flora Rose, Helen Canon (1919)
"This necessitates the entering of dates on the proper page of subdivisions, as well as in the cash account, the charge account, or the produce account. ..."

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