charge account

as in credit line

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Recent Examples of charge account According to documents filed Monday in the Jacksonville division of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Amit Patel had sole authority to approve charges to the team's virtual credit card, a charge account that doesn't require a physical credit card. Marley Jay, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2023 Meanwhile, Vickers was hearing reports about someone in Cleveland claiming to be Collins and trying to buy musical gear on a store charge account; Vickers knew Collins was elsewhere in the country at that point. David Browne, Rolling Stone, 25 Nov. 2022 His first act of revenge was to purchase several VCRs and televisions on his father’s charge account, and sell them for cash. Jeff Maysh, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2022 The Mesopotamians were among the first known to grasp the usefulness of the charge account. Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022 Chime doesn’t charge account fees or require minimum balances and lets customers who directly deposit their paycheck have early access to those funds and overdraw up to $200. Peter Rudegeair, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2021 The service will not charge account fees or commissions for online trades. Chris Morris, Fortune, 18 May 2021 Participants will also have use of public spaces and a charge account for food and beverages. Michele Herrmann, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021 There were also unsuccessful attempts to open three separate charge accounts at other businesses, police said. Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for charge account
Noun
  • Layering Through Digital Transactions: These synthetic accounts engage in seemingly legitimate activities—opening credit lines, initiating high-frequency transactions and routing money through multiple financial institutions to erase the trail.
    Parya Lotfi, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Table Trac has a revolving credit line of $500,000, with no borrowings outstanding as of September 30, 2024.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Taxpayers often have opportunities to negotiate repayment arrangements or installment plans to avoid immediate refund loss.
    Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The end of the world is usually dramatized as convulsive and feverish, but population loss is an apocalypse on an installment plan.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025

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“Charge account.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/charge%20account. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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