Sweep

In accounting, sweep means an automatic transfer between our own accounts at a set time or threshold — typically excess balances into a concentration or investment account.

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Nearby: 4

Authority

This definition follows ASC 230-10-45 — not a cash flow.

Every citation in this system, with the text we read and the date we checked it, is in US GAAP and where these rules come from.

Sweep, in use

Quoted from the 4 documents that use the word — what it does to an interface, in the spec's own sentence.

Ours are flat, tinted by a brand color the consumer sets, with a single specular sweep on hover.
Moodboard — 6. Monzo / Revolut — the card object
Slow breathe (opacity 0.6↔1, 1.6s) permitted; no shimmer sweep — a translating gradient across a full-page skeleton is large-surface paint animation and the clearest template tell there is.
System & states — 84. Skeleton
Concentration risk: cash by institution against insured limits (FDIC $250,000 per depositor, per insured bank, per ownership category — sweep and reciprocal-deposit networks can extend it).
Cash & treasury — 5. Multi-account treasury

For founders

The same idea written for a founder: what it costs a startup that ignores it, and what to do in a real month.

What it is not called

Each of these is a real word for a different thing. Using it here is what makes a product read as though it was built by someone who has not done the work.

transfer unqualified

Nearby in the catalog

No component names this concept outright. These are the ones in its part of the system, which is a weaker claim — but a component nothing links to is a component nobody finds.