0 a formal agreement between a shop or other business and a customer, in which the customer can take goods and pay the shop or business for them at a later time --
1 an arrangement that allows a customer to buy things and pay for them at a later time --
2 an account which allows you to buy and take away goods, and use services, and pay for them later: --
There were many larger department stores which opened store charge accounts for their customers with paper identification, enabling the customer to make purchases on credit provided by the store.
Most important, it offered credit, usually in the form of charge accounts.
Some have taken a strong line against landlords who fail to provide proper summaries of cost and access to inspect service charge accounts.
I battled for a right to challenge service charge accounts, a right which, until then, had been non-existent.
The company also revolutionized retailing with their introduction of revolving charge account cards.
She opens a charge account and starts to purchase expensive items like a water bed as she tries to build a dream home.
A charge coin usually had the charge account number along with the merchant's name and logo.
You'd get on well without your maid and your car and your father's charge accounts at all the shops, wouldn't you?
