open account
Example Sentences
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"I have had the same Ukrainian trading partner for years and an open account with him. How can I now ask him to pay me money while he is struggling to stay alive?"
From Reuters • Mar. 4, 2022
The large plantation owner usually dealt with some London house, which kept an open account with him, crediting his tobacco against orders for the manufactured articles and luxuries which the Virginia and Maryland gentlemen demanded.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene
They wish to buy on open account; or to give a note to be paid at maturity, if convenient,—otherwise not.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 by Various
She would have her own carriage and horses, her box at the Italiens and at the Opera, and an open account at Worth's and Van Klopen's.
From Other People's Money by Gaboriau, Émile
He begged me not to do so, said many flattering things to me, and urged that it would be convenient to have an open account in London.
From Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude by Bidwell, Austin
