Bank statement


a monthly statement of account mailed by a bank to each of its customers with checking or other accounts, recording the banking transactions and current balance during a period and usually including canceled checks.
a statement required to be published periodically by a bank showing its financial status, as assets and liabilities.
Historical Examples

Of course the market is off a little on account of the bank statement.
Mother Owen Wister

At the end of each month the books are balanced and checked with the bank statement.
The 1926 Tatler Various

Much later he was questioned by my youngest brother Bishnu, who noticed the large deposit on a bank statement.
Autobiography of a YOGI Paramhansa Yogananda

And yet how few can read a bank statement with real insight and judgment.
Forging Ahead in Business Various

When the bank statement came in my father would see right off that the money had not been deposited.
Paul and the Printing Press Sara Ware Bassett

Mel gasped to himself when he saw the bank statement and the amount of money deposited under the name of the partnership.
All In The Mind Gene L. Henderson

noun
a statement of transactions in a bank account, esp one of a series sent at regular intervals to the depositor

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