capital account

/ˌkæpədl əˌkaʊnt/
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Other forms: capital accounts

Definitions of capital account
  1. noun
    (economics) that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's outflow and inflow of financial securities
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    type of:
    account, account statement, accounting
    a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance
  2. noun
    (finance) an account of the net value of a business at a specified date
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    type of:
    account, account statement, accounting
    a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance
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