checking account

noun

: a bank account against which the depositor can draw checks

Examples of checking account in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The bank could hook young adults with a checking account and potentially keep them and their business through decades of mortgages and retirement savings. —Ron Lieber, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025

At its best, a money market account blends the reliability (and high APYs) of a savings account with the accessibility of a checking account. —Tim Baker, CNBC, 28 Mar. 2025

The judge also said that testimony revealed a persistent pattern of commingling funds between endowment care funds and checking accounts from cemetery to cemetery. —Richard Halstead, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2025

One area of business services that didn’t grow its presence on our list this year: banking-as-a-service startups that help other companies offer financial products like checking accounts. —Jeff Kauflin, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1909, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for checking account

• amount
• discount
• dismount
• recount
• remount
• seamount
• surmount
• count
• fount
• mount
• rediscount
• subaccount

Kids Definition

checking account

noun

: an account in a bank from which the depositor can draw money by writing checks