current account

noun

British

: a bank account from which a person can take money by writing checks : checking account

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According to information about the breach on the company's website, 7.6 million current account holders and 65.4 million former account holders have been impacted. —Chloe Veltman, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024

The company said the leak shows approximately 7.6 million current account holders and 65.4 million former account holders were affected. —Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 30 Mar. 2024

And although measures of the EU’s economic health, including its current account balance, productivity, and debt statistics, hardly give cause for alarm, if the German economy weakens, this picture may change. —Sudha David-Wilp, Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2024

Declining revenue from the energy industry has contributed to a fall in Russia’s current account surplus, which slumped 79% between January and September compared with the same period in 2022. —Anna Cooban, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023

Plunging export volumes continue to weigh on the economy, as the current account surplus shrank 86% year-on-year to just $25.6 billion in January-August. —Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2023

But the bigger progress was reputational, the bank has been able to raise current account and savings account (CASA) deposits from $651 million upon the merger in 2019 to $8.8 billion, far outpacing the industry. —Foreign Affairs, 7 Sep. 2023

Economic troubles have forced him to mute his anti-Western rhetoric: the country faces a currency crisis, double-digit inflation, and an enormous current account deficit. —Gonul Tol, Foreign Affairs, 26 Oct. 2018

As a result, the shortfall in its current account ballooned to a record $10 billion in January as imports soared. —Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 June 2023