account number

nounB1Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

An account number is the figure identifying one particular account. Yours, and nobody else's.

Banking uses eight digits in Britain alongside a six-digit sort code, and the two together identify where money should go. Utilities, insurers and shops all issue their own. The number is not a secret in the way a password is, since anybody paying you needs it, though giving it out with other details is how a great deal of fraud starts. The IBAN is the international version.

Definitions of account number

1nounaccount numberThe unique number identifying a particular account.B1
“Quote your account number when you ring.”

Practised in A Man Called Ove, Bank & Post Office

First appears in chapter 13 of A Man Called Ove.

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account number

nounB1Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

An account number is the figure identifying one particular account. Yours, and nobody else's.

Definitions of account number

1nounaccount numberThe unique number identifying a particular account.B1
“Quote your account number when you ring.”

Practised in A Man Called Ove, Bank & Post Office

First appears in chapter 13 of A Man Called Ove.

Practise this word