bank account
bank account noun: a fund, held by a bank in a contractual arrangement between the bank and the owner of the fund, a customer of the bank, into which they can deposit and from which they can withdraw money.
Noun
bank account (plural bank accounts)
- A fund, held by a bank in a contractual arrangement between the bank and the owner of the fund, a customer of the bank, into which they can deposit and from which they can withdraw money.
bank account meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Kannada
bank account in Hindi
- fund deposited by a customer for safekeeping in a bank
- बैंक खाता baiṅk khātā
bank account in Tamil
- fund deposited by a customer for safekeeping in a bank
- வங்கிக்கணக்கு vaṅkikkaṇakku
bank account in Marathi
- fund deposited by a customer for safekeeping in a bank
- बँक खाते bĕṅka khāte
bank account in Kannada
- ಬ್ಯಾಂಕಿನ ಖಾತೆ, ಬ್ಯಾಂಕು ಲೆಕ್ಕ
More languagesFewer languages
- bank account in Gujarati
- બેંક એકાઉન્ટ beṅk ekāunṭ
- bank account in Arabic
- حِسَاب مَصْرَفِيّ ḥisāb maṣrafiyy
- bank account in Malay
- akaun bank
- bank account in Indonesian
- akun bank
- bank account in Vietnamese
- tài khoản ngân hàng
Forms of bank account
| plural | bank accounts |
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Origin of bank account
Originally referring merely to the registry of transactions (deposits, withdrawals) for a fund held by a bank, the sense came to encompass the fund being held.
Words formed from bank account
Questions about bank account
- What does bank account mean?
- Bank account means a fund, held by a bank in a contractual arrangement between the bank and the owner of the fund, a customer of the bank, into which they can deposit and from which they can withdraw money.
- What is bank account in Hindi?
- Bank account in Hindi is बैंक खाता (baiṅk khātā). See Bank account meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is bank account?
- Bank account is a noun.
- What is the plural of bank account?
- The plural of bank account is bank accounts.
Words near bank account in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bank account (page history and authors); bank account (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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