sales account

noun [C]

Definition

› ACCOUNTING a record of the total cash or credit sales for a particular period: Enter it in the books as a credit to the sales account.

› COMMERCE a customer that a business sells its products to: The deal went bad, and we lost the company's biggest sales account.

(Definition of sales account noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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