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burner accounts

burner accounts is the plural of burner account.

Meaning of burner account

Noun

burner account (plural burner accounts)

  1. (Internet, informal) An anonymous account (typically on a social media website) used (temporarily) for activities that the user does not desire to have tied to their main account.
    • Another area that sports organizations need to consider with risk assessment is the emergence of burner accounts (i.e., social media accounts that a person operates under a fake name, which allows them to post things the may not be willing to post from their identified account). NBA player Kevin...2021 July 26, Gashaw Abeza, Norman O'reilly, Jimmy Sanderson, Evan Frederick, Social Media In Sport: Theory And Practice (Emerging Issues And Trends In Sport Business), World Scientific, →ISBN, page...
    Synonyms:
    burner, throwaway

Questions about burner accounts

What is burner accounts the plural of?
Burner accounts is the plural of burner account.

Words near burner accounts in the dictionary

  1. burnedness
  2. burnedst
  3. Burnell
  4. burner
  5. burner account
  6. burner accounts
  7. burner phone
  8. burner phones
  9. burnerless
  10. burners
  11. Burneside

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