In plain English
It means the account's email address has been checked and accepted as one that can actually be used to contact the account. This is a status of the account tied to that address being associated with it, not just entered there.
In context
Here, it reports that the email address listed on the account has been confirmed as a usable contact address associated with that account.
- Situation
- Profile setup, contact details, verification fields, and preference settings
- What it communicates
- reports that the listed email address has a verified status on the account.
Meaning limits
By itself, this status does not prove a person's identity or any access rights on the account.
Examples
“Her main account was email verified, but the spare one still only had an address entered.”
“By the time the clerk checked the record, the account was already email verified.”