Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• DEMAND DEPOSIT ACCOUNT
  
  an account from which a depositor may withdraw funds immediately without prior notice, commonly known as a checking account. Since funds may be withdrawn on demand in person or by presentation of a check, the account has many of the liquid characteristics of circulating currency.
  
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