account

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Synonyms: accourt, a count

Antonyms: accourt, a count

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Noun

1. A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
   • The firm failed to file its accounts on time.
2. A bank account.
   • The money was refunded to her account.
3. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
   • No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena.
4. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
   • Don't trouble yourself on my account.
   • on no account
   • on every account
   • on all accounts
5. A record of events; a relation or narrative.
   • An account of a battle.
6. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
7. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
8. Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
   • Since the system outage, I've been unable to log in to my account.
9. A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
10. Profit; advantage.
    • The young man soon turned his woodworking skills to some account.

Verb

1. To provide explanation. To present an account of; to answer for, to justify. To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc. To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
   • I'd account it a privilege to serve you.
   • An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
   • We must account for the use of our opportunities.
   • Idleness accounts for poverty.
   • After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for.
2. To present an account of; to answer for, to justify.
3. To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc.
4. To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
   • I'd account it a privilege to serve you.
5. To consider that.
6. To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.
   • An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
7. To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.
   • We must account for the use of our opportunities.
8. To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.
   • Idleness accounts for poverty.
9. To establish the location for someone.
   • After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for.
10. To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).
11. To count. To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time). To count (up), enumerate. To recount, relate (a narrative etc.).
12. To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time).
13. To count (up), enumerate.
14. To recount, relate (a narrative etc.).
15. Used in phrasal verbs: account for, account of, account to.

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