要账 (yāo) — to demand repayment, to collect a debt

Definition

要账 is a separable verb meaning 'to collect a debt / demand repayment' — the 账 can be separated and shifted, as in 要了三次账. The first example uses it as a noun phrase (the job of debt collection).

verb

to demand repaymentto collect a debt

Examples

要账。
Tā zài gōng sī lǐ zhǔ yào fù zé yāo.
He is mainly responsible for collecting debts at the company.
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Tā shàng ge yuè yào le sān cì zhàng, dōu méi chéng gōng.
He demanded repayment three times last month, but none succeeded.
，。
Zhè zhǒng lài zhàng de kè hù, yào zhàng hěn nán.
For customers who default like this, collecting debts is very difficult.

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