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cash account

 
 
noun [C]

Definition

BANKING, FINANCE an account that a customer has in which the whole amount owed for items bought must be paid for immediately: With a cash account you are required to pay in full for the purchase of securities on or before the settlement date.
ACCOUNTING the part of a set of accounts in which money received or spent in cash is recorded: He asked to examine the cash accounts.
BANKING a current account: The rules for opening a cash account are simple.
(Definition of cash account noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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