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

"I'll go right with you," said Mr. Wallingford, asking no questions, but rightly divining that his Lamb kept no open account.

From Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford by Chester, George Randolph

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

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

All important documents should be presented in an entire state, with a plain and open account of their history,—who had them, where they were found, and how preserved.

From Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time by Stowe, Harriet Beecher