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
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
"Has my wife an open account here now?" was the brief response.
From Taken Alive by Roe, Edward Payson
The aim of the book is to give a minute and open account of the steps and changes by which Dr. Newman passed from the English Church to the Roman.
From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)
Nothing uncommon for them to bring suit against a person for a Book debt and trade with him on an open account at the same time.
From Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck by Williams, Harrison