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n. 1 That part of the balance of payments recording a nation's exports and imports of goods and services and transfer payments 2 (context British English) A checking account (US) at a bank which is used for daily transactions, as opposed to a deposit account or savings account.
WordNet
n. that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's exports and imports of goods and services and transfer payments
Wikipedia
In economics, a country's current account is one of the two components of its balance of payments, the other being the capital account (sometimes called the financial account). The current account consists of the balance of trade, net primary income or factor income (earnings on foreign investments minus payments made to foreign investors) and net cash transfers, that have taken place over a given period of time. The current account balance is one of two major measures of a country's foreign trade (the other being the net capital outflow). A current account surplus indicates that the value of a country's net foreign assets (i.e. assets less liabilities) grew over the period in question, and a current account deficit indicates that it shrank. Both government and private payments are included in the calculation. It is called the current account because goods and services are generally consumed in the current period.
Current Account was a BBC Television current affairs series of the 1970s and 80s shown in Scotland. Among its various presenters were Donald MacCormick, George Reid and Kenneth Roy. Transmitted weekly on a Thursday at 20.30 it consisted of a one subject filmed or studio report. Its editor was Matthew Spicer.
During the run up to the 1979 Scottish devolution referendum it had a sister programme dealing only with politics called Public Account.
Usage examples of "current account".
She would go for his current account, for his cash draw down at the Saskatch Timber Bank, and any immediately cashable positions or notes of his that she could discover floating on the exchange.
It was not a clearing bank, of course, had no current account holders, and issued no checkbooks.
They need it, and all of a sudden there's a big hole in their current account.
If I keep a couple of hundred in my current account, that's my look-out.
Within an hour he was standing at the counter of the Handels-bank of Zurich's main office, at 58 Talstrasse, and opening a current account in his own name.
He had never owned before what one might actually call money and certainly not what the swells refer to as the current account.
Damon had a current account at the local bank, complete with cashcard, and an interest-bearing account with a building society in Kirkealdy.
There won't be enough funds to cover it, either in my current account or in the deposit account.
He only had a few pounds in his pocket, and his current account was so empty that his cashcard would be no help, so he was forced to thumb through each volume looking for clues.
She would go for his current account, for his cash draw down at -the Saskatch Timber Bank, and any immediately cashable positions or notes of his that she could discover floating on the exchange.