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custodial account

 
 
noun [C]

Definition

US BANKING a bank or investment account that is set up and managed for someone else, for example, by a child's parents: The law permits you to use the money in a custodial account as long as it's on your child's behalf.
(Definition of custodial account noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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