accounts receivable

noun [plural] (also UK debtors, also US receivables) ACCOUNTING

Definition

› the amounts in a company's accounts that show money that is owed to the company by its customers: At the end of the fiscal year, the company had $106 million in accounts receivable.

(Definition of accounts receivable noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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