account receivable

account receivable (plural accounts receivable)

1. (accounting, usually in the plural) Amount recorded as being owed by a customer for sales on credit or on account.

   Synonym: (initialism) AR

   Coordinate term: account payable

• trade payable

• “account receivable”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “accounts receivable”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.