Doesn't this sound like the name of a dinosaur with a massive, gaping mouth? Like, you have velociraptor and gigantosaur and...acceptor?
Maybe not.
Acceptor refers to the entity responsible for paying a bill, i.e., they accept that liability. The type of bill requiring an acceptor is usually a bill of exchange, and has two players, other than the acceptor: the drawor and the drawee. A drone building company pays Plastics R Us for blades based on a check drawn from their Wells Fargo account. The plastics company brings that check to the bank, which then accepts responsibility for wiring the money to the right place.
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Finance a la shmoop what is escrow so leave it to the French they'll cook and [Man and woman cooking food]
eat anything horse hoof pig snout and yes finally snail but wait that's
different oh okay well escrow is a financial state
of being akin to the pearly gates where st. Peter is a you know checking you out [St Peter appears in the clouds]
there's a transaction a contract a whole bunch of signatures a commitment and
then a holding time our waiting period or cooling period will the transaction
be allowed through the gates or in Dante fashion will it be sent back to the pits
of hell to be renegotiated fixed or suffer eternal damnation yeah those are
the questions escrow is that special place where your dough hangs out until [Escrow definition appears on 100 dollar bill]
the grander powers that be decide whether or not that dough can be you
know shoveled along forward selling your home well it's likely the buyer first
puts their dough into an escrow account which only gets released to you once [money transfers into a piggy bank]
those pesky socialist termites have been eradicated by Clint Eastwood and if the
termites win well you won't be able to afford cooked snail any time soon and
we'll just put it that way so its escrow your money just kind of sits there until [Escrow piggy bank waiting at traffic lights]
gets a green light all the contracts are signed everything's good then the money
just wires into your bank account and then you can move on with life
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