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单词 account
释义
account
(əknt )
Word forms: accounts , accounting , accounted
1. countable noun B1
If you have an account with a bank or a similar organization, you have an arrangement to leave your money there and take some out when you need it.
Some banks make it difficult to open an account.
I had two accounts with the bank, a savings account and a current account. [+ with]
2. countable noun
In business, a regular customer of a company can be referred to as an account, especially when the customer is another company. [business]
The Glasgow-based marketing agency has won two Edinburgh accounts.
3. countable noun [usually plural]
Accounts are detailed records of all the money that a person or business receives and spends. [business]
He kept detailed accounts.
...an account book.
4. countable noun B2
An account is a written or spoken report of something that has happened.
He gave a detailed account of what happened on the fateful night. [+ of]
And that, according to some accounts I have read, is why he adopted the name.
Synonyms: description, report, record, story  
5. countable noun [usually NOUN of noun, oft poss NOUN]
An account of something is a theory which is intended to explain or describe it. [formal]
This basic utilitarian model gives a relatively unsophisticated account of human behaviour.
Science, on Weber's account, is an essentially value-free activity.
6. verb [usually passive]
If you say that something is accounted a particular thing, you are reporting someone's judgment or opinion that it is that thing. [formal]
The opening day of the battle was, nevertheless, accounted a success. [be VERB-ed noun]
Synonyms: consider, rate, value, explain  
7.  See also accounting, bank account, current account, deposit account
8. by/from all accounts phrase
If you say that something is true by all accounts or from all accounts, you believe it is true because other people say so.
He is, by all accounts, a superb teacher.
9. give a good account of oneself phrase
If you say that someone gave a good account of themselves in a particular situation, you mean that they performed well, although they may not have been completely successful.
The team fought hard and gave a good account of themselves.
10. of no/little account phrase
If you say that something is of no account or of little account, you mean that it is very unimportant and is not worth considering. [formal]
These obscure groups were of little account in national politics.
11. on account phrase
If you buy or pay for something on account, you pay nothing or only part of the cost at first, and pay the rest later.
The cards are issued to employees so they can purchase fuel on account.
12. on account of phrase B2
You use on account of to introduce the reason or explanation for something.
The President declined to deliver the speech himself, on account of a sore throat.
A newly-married couple, he thought, on account of their walking so close together.
Synonyms: by reason of, interest, because of, score  
13. on someone's account phrase
If you tell someone not to do something on your account, you mean that they should do it only if they want to, and not because they think it will please you. [spoken]
Don't leave on my account.
14. on someone's account phrase
Your feelings on someone's account are the feelings you have about what they have experienced or might experience, especially when you imagine yourself to be in their situation.
Mollie told me what she'd done and I was really scared on her account.
15. on no account phrase
If you say that something should on no account be done, you are emphasizing that it should not be done under any circumstances. [emphasis]
On no account should the mixture boil.
Synonyms: never, not at all, at no time, under no circumstances  
16. on that/this account phrase [usually PHRASE after verb, PHRASE with cl]
You can use on that account or on this account when you want to say that something happens for the reason you have just mentioned.
Wine is radioactive but few people stop drinking it on that account.
17. by their own account phrase
If you say that something concerning a particular person is true by his or her own account, you mean that you believe it because that person has said it is true.
He was by his own account an ambitious workaholic.
18. on one's own account phrase [PHRASE after verb]
If you take part in a business activity on your own account, you do it for yourself, and not as a representative or employee of a company.
She had plans to set up in business on her own account.
19. on one's own account phrase
If you do something on your own account, you do it because you want to and without being asked, and you take responsibility for your own action.
I told him if he withdrew it was on his own account.
20. settle (one's) accounts reciprocal phrase [VERB inflects, PHR with n, plural-noun PHRASE]
To settle accounts with an enemy or opponent means to bring your fight or quarrel to an end by defeating them. [written]
I will not use this legislation against anyone or to settle accounts with anyone.
Their sleep is disturbed by the sound of gunfire as criminal gangs settle their nightly accounts.
21. take into account/take account of phrase
If you take something into account, or take account of something, you consider it when you are thinking about a situation or deciding what to do.
The defendant asked for 21 similar offences to be taken into account.
Urban planners in practice have to take account of many interest groups in society.
22. be called/held/brought to account phrase
If someone is called, held, or brought to account for something they have done wrong, they are made to explain why they did it, and are often criticized or punished for it.
Ministers should be called to account for their actions. [+ for]
Phrasal verbs:
account for
1. phrasal verb
If a particular thing accounts for a part or proportion of something, that part or proportion consists of that thing, or is used or produced by it.
Computers account for 5% of the country's commercial electricity consumption. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
2. phrasal verb
If something accounts for a particular fact or situation, it causes or explains it.
Now, the gene they discovered today doesn't account for all those cases. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
3. phrasal verb
If you can account for something, you can explain it or give the necessary information about it.
How do you account for the company's alarmingly high staff turnover? [VERB PARTICLE noun]
He said only 200 of the train's 600 passengers had been accounted for. [be VERB-ed PARTICLE]
4. phrasal verb
If someone has to account for an action or policy, they are responsible for it, and may be required to explain it to other people or be punished if it fails.
The President and the President alone must account for his government's reforms. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
5. phrasal verb
If a sum of money is accounted for in a budget, it has been included in that budget for a particular purpose.
The really heavy redundancy costs have been accounted for. [be VERB-ed PARTICLE]
[Also VERB PARTICLE noun]
6. phrasal verb
If you account for an enemy or opponent, you kill, destroy, or beat them.
In the first ten days of May our squadron accounted for at least seven enemy aircraft. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
In the final they accounted for Brentford by three goals to two. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
Collocations:
account password
You should also change your email account password, and enable twofactor authentication where possible.
The Sun
You should change your account password.
Times, Sunday Times
I was told that without the account password, there was nothing it could do.
Times, Sunday Times
Telecom advised customers to delete any suspicious emails and to change their account password.
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You should never send credit card information, account passwords or extensive personal details - name, address, date of birth or national insurance number - in an email.
Times, Sunday Times
account properly
The study found that those in the worst performing categories failed to account properly for the impact they had on the companies and countries in which their money was invested.
Times,Sunday Times
Critically, most of the key actors, notably in the private financial institutions and public regulators, have not been required to account properly for their roles and behaviour.
Times, Sunday Times
No one questions that universities in receipt of public funds should have to account properly for their use.
Times, Sunday Times
Thus, moral philosophy adequately considered must take into account properly theological truths.
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account transaction
The duty extends at least to information concerning account transactions and extends beyond the date of the termination of the banker customer contract.
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This connection enabled the bank to process savings account transactions, personal loan files and term deposits on-line.
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In addition, mainframes are still being used for some mission-critical applications, such as payroll, or for processing day-to-day account transactions in banks.
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A number of reforms removed restrictions on current account transactions (including trade, interest payments and remittances and some capital asset-based transactions).
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accounting fraud
In the months that followed, regulators and independent investigators appointed by the company uncovered an elaborate accounting fraud.
Times, Sunday Times
At its peak, shareholders held stock valued at $180-billion, all of which has now been wiped out since the company declared bankruptcy a month after revealing its accounting fraud.
Globe and Mail
Its bankruptcy had been attributed to widespread accounting fraud.
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A corporate scandal sometimes involves accounting fraud of some sort.
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At the time, this fiasco was the largest case of accounting fraud in the country's history.
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accounting irregularities
The discovery of accounting irregularities at its industrial services division in 2006 led to a 26 million restatement of profits.
Times, Sunday Times
Both companies have warned of accounting irregularities related to how contracts were managed - but there the similarity ends.
Times, Sunday Times
Yesterday, the company admitted that accounting irregularities in its point-of-sale business would lead to profits approximately 2.8 million lower than expected.
Times, Sunday Times
But, over the past 18 months, it has all been bad news: accounting irregularities, fraud, debt and restatement of results.
ST
It blamed the emergency rights issue, which sent its shares crashing 20%, on accounting irregularities in the wireless business.
Times, Sunday Times
accounting software
User-friendly accounting software walks you through the process, one step at a time.
Times, Sunday Times
Surely, in these days of accounting software and online banking, there must be some kind of electronic gadget that can help?
Times, Sunday Times
Just buying an accounting software package or even a new printer can help your company.
Times, Sunday Times
Small businesses will need to file tax information online via compatible accounting software in an effort to cut reporting errors that cost the exchequer close to £10 billion a year.
Times,Sunday Times
The company combines its own accounting software - which took two years to develop - with access to in-house accountants.
Times, Sunday Times
accounts differ
Accounts differ on whether they subdued a single guard, but it's unlikely it was guarded at all.
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Accounts differ as to what happened next.
The Times Literary Supplement
Accounts differ of what happened next.
Times, Sunday Times
Accounts differ but between 20,000 and 40,000 troops, followed by thousands of stragglers, all desperate for food and shelter, fell on the resources of the town.
Times, Sunday Times
Accounts differ as to the actual amounts of damage done.
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accurate account
Nevertheless, she provides an excellent and largely accurate account of a fascinating and fast-moving area of modern biology.
The Times Literary Supplement
Why should we not accept what they say as a fair and accurate account of their own society?
The Times Literary Supplement
Not because it was a bad book, he said, but because it was such a dismally accurate account of our times.
Times, Sunday Times
But they were actually giving a more accurate account of the ancient pronunciation.
Times, Sunday Times
Nobody excelled him in what he regarded as his first duty: that of giving a precise, clear, well-informed and accurate account of every ball bowled and every stroke played.
Times, Sunday Times
autobiographical account
But it was an autobiographical account.
Times, Sunday Times
It went on to sell more than two million copies and has been followed by four more autobiographical accounts.
The Sun
This was cringe-behind-a-cushion stuff, probably capturing the lulls between the storms so poignantly because it was based on two autobiographical accounts of the conflict.
Times, Sunday Times
Memories recalled by hyperthymestic individuals tend to be personal, autobiographical accounts of both significant and mundane events in their lives.
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They include prose novels, autobiographical accounts of travel and other experiences, historical works, and poetry, mainly light verse in various forms and idioms.
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biblical account
Others, anticipating the difficult challenge of developing socially persuasive arguments, simply skip the first step of formulating an explicitly biblical account.
Christianity Today
Only instead of choosing two notes from the musical scale, he chose two words from the biblical account.
Christianity Today
But there's not a word about it in the biblical account.
Christianity Today
I have lost count of the number of such archaeological 'coincidences', each one invariably confirming the biblical account and contradicting those who maintain that these historical records are myth.
Times, Sunday Times
Modern writers have speculated that the biblical account might refer to an illness with a natural organic cause.
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brief account
Send a brief account of your problem with pictures to property.
Times, Sunday Times
I wrote nothing about his private life until a brief account introducing his fine - posthumous - book.
Times, Sunday Times
A second supplement, added in the edition of 1875, gives a brief account of trees and shrubs introduced since 1859.
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It contains a catalogue of writers on the subject with a brief account of their principal works.
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She offers a brief account of the history of transpersonal psychology and a peek into its possible future.
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check an account
I check my account at 10pm and find 18 people online.
The Sun
Have banks genuinely met customers' needs as savers rushed online to check their account savings in recent months?
Times, Sunday Times
Check your account regularly to ensure rewards have been credited.
Times, Sunday Times
Nearly one in ten e-bankers of all ages check their account daily.
The Sun
To determine if you can use the service, check your account number.
Houston Chronicle
company accounts
'Company accounts don't go into that much detail,' he insists.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
She has yet to detect any collapse but it will be a year before any trend shows in company accounts.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The income appears to have gone through his personal rather than company accounts.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
comprehensive account
These are exceptions in an otherwise uncontroversial and comprehensive account of the book that remains fundamental to what we are - and might become.
Times, Sunday Times
They give a comprehensive account of their trip, with pictures of bird species they found.
ST
I haven't remotely got space to give a comprehensive account of these rules, but here are one or two characteristics of tags.
Times, Sunday Times
It said it believed that the hearing on its case would 'provide a full and comprehensive account of the facts not available to the judge for the shortened proceedings'.
Times, Sunday Times
A modern comprehensive account of this can be found in.
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confirm an account
Though there were no witnesses available to confirm her account, the two obstetricians who examined her 12 hours after the birth are wholly convinced.
canada.com
However, nothing to confirm this account has yet come to light.
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Later research has sought to confirm this account or to add minor details.
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The report of your rescue confirms this account.
Times, Sunday Times
It confirmed the account had been opened fraudulently but was now closed and any adverse action recorded against your company would be removed.
Times, Sunday Times
conflicting accounts
The wrestler has not made things easier for himself by giving conflicting accounts of what happened.
Times, Sunday Times
A grand jury, responsible for deciding if charges are brought, heard conflicting accounts.
The Sun
There are two conflicting accounts of what happened the following morning.
Times,Sunday Times
There are conflicting accounts of what happened.
Times, Sunday Times
There are two broad and conflicting accounts.
Times, Sunday Times
contemporary account
One contemporary account said that the howling of its people could be heard from one side of the island to the other.
Times, Sunday Times
One contemporary account of the 'trad boom' described the band's sound as 'rumbustious, lively, bursting with enthusiasm ... the foot-tappingest trad you'll hear'.
Times, Sunday Times
According to a contemporary account, he was 'in the bloom of youth and extremely handsome'.
Times, Sunday Times
No record survives of the outcome of the case, but no contemporary account speaks of the trial by battle actually taking place.
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It was said in a contemporary account that his entire material wealth at that time was composed of a sizable library.
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credit card account
Transfer a balance from another credit card account ?
The Sun
When the credit card account isn't paid in full, the outstanding balance collects interest charges.
Christianity Today
I expected the money to bounce back to my account, seeing as the credit card account no longer exists.
Times, Sunday Times
Opening a credit card account with a direct debit to clear the bill every month can boost your overall score.
Times, Sunday Times
Bank and card companies carry out extensive security checks before setting up a credit card account.
Times, Sunday Times
detailed account
It will be a detailed account of their experience.
The Sun (2008)
But he set out a detailed account of how he concluded that no charges should be brought.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
His book is a marvellously detailed account of life in Japan experienced at first-hand.
Eric Newby A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES (2003)
dormant account
Outrageously, the bank deducted a 100 fee for managing a 'dormant account'.
Times, Sunday Times
This means that if a dormant account had a balance on it, there will be a record of it.
Times, Sunday Times
Tracking down a dormant account can take months.
Times,Sunday Times
It was still sitting in your dormant account when you contacted me, but has now been transferred into the account for which you gave details.
Times,Sunday Times
The government says that if a customer were to remember about a dormant account after the money had been funnelled into the scheme they could always reclaim it.
Times,Sunday Times
fictional account
Far from nobly giving himself up to the police as the fictional account would have it, he fought for years to avoid prison, using every legal trick in the book.
Times, Sunday Times
Listeners were relieved to discover at the end of the broadcast that it had been a fictional account.
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The book details a fictional account of the future of space travel, specifically space tourism.
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The book offers a fictional account of life in the year 2000.
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He set out to construct a fictional account of what might have caused the incident, without knowing any of the details of the crime.
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first-hand account
Powerful, gripping and intensely moving, the film gives a first-hand account of this long and brutal conflict and its legacy.
Times, Sunday Times
And not one of the 'stories' includes a first-hand account, reading instead rather like a series of encyclopaedia entries.
Times, Sunday Times
His correspondence with various survivors of the time and their close relatives provide the largest single first-hand account of the settlement of the region.
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He acquired an invaluable and first-hand account of the character, vision and belief of each of these rulers.
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It provided a frank, first-hand account of the lessons learned in the development process.
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first-person account
Passages from his ill-starred novel alternate with his first-person account of his shambolic disintegration.
Times, Sunday Times
It was a jolting first-person account that did not flinch from the horrors it encountered.
Times, Sunday Times
This part of the book gives a first-person account of how bond traders and salesmen truly work, their personalities, and their culture.
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He completed his last recorded work two years later, providing a detailed first-person account of his exile.
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His illustrations are usually first-person accounts about his many spiritual triumphs.
Christianity Today
freeze an account
I hoped it would freeze the account to prevent my money being transferred.
Times, Sunday Times
Its systems can detect whether the merchant has financial problems, and freeze their account.
Times, Sunday Times
Until then, the adviser told me, the bank was going to freeze my account.
Times, Sunday Times
If you suspect you have been scammed, contact your bank immediately so it can ask the bank receiving your money to freeze that account.
Times, Sunday Times
If the individual becomes past due on the loan, the financial institution may take money out of the bank account or freeze the account until the loan becomes current.
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full account
I provided a full account of what transpired.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
If the Government fails to provide a full account of its conduct, it will simply add to speculation.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It was not until 2006 that she gave a full account of it to a Times journalist.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
historical account
It sometimes shows no interest in providing the kind of details we need to string together a coherent historical account.
Christianity Today
However, throughout the historical account she offers glimpses of company dynamics producing flashpoints small and large.
The Times Literary Supplement
This approach corresponds to the author's aim of producing 'a genuinely historical account'.
The Times Literary Supplement
In support, he presents a somewhat idealized historical account of criminal justice in northern cities in the late nineteenth century.
The Times Literary Supplement
This isn't a documentary or a historical account that has to play by the rules of fact-based reportage.
Times, Sunday Times
household accounts
The advance of independent energy suppliers has reached a key milestone, with the largest reaching a million household accounts.
Times, Sunday Times
I and my friends do all the household accounts and are good at it.
Times, Sunday Times
It also admitted the net loss of 350,000 household accounts.
Times, Sunday Times
The bins are fitted with electronic chips that are automatically read by the rubbish lorries, adding the cost to household accounts.
Times, Sunday Times
It lost 286,000 household accounts - half the decline rate of the year before and a quarter of 2017's total.
The Sun
newspaper account
Contrary to the newspaper account, the doctors did not see the births of whole rabbits.
Times,Sunday Times
They also demanded that jury members be individually questioned by the judge to determine whether they had read a newspaper account of the settlements.
Times, Sunday Times
This newspaper account was echoed many times in local and far distant newspapers into early 1846.
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A 1938 newspaper account said he gained 350 yards from scrimmage.
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As early as 60 years before, a newspaper account reported of problems with dingoes.
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official account
Police chiefs stood by the official account of the officers on duty at the time.
Times, Sunday Times
Rewind to 1965, and it turns out the official account bore only a passing resemblance to the truth.
The Sun
Instead, dull updates are posted on the official account, like what they ate for breakfast.
The Sun
The grim message was sent to the club's official account.
The Sun
The official account maintains that he was probably caught in crossfire.
Times, Sunday Times
offshore account
Before depositing money in an offshore account, check you are not liable to pay overseas tax on any income.
Times, Sunday Times
The new 'amnesty' will apply to all offshore account holders.
Times, Sunday Times
Bowler bought his detached home outright in 2002 for 800,000 using an offshore account.
The Sun
Officials in the 61-year-old's homeland were last night investigating claims he illegally hid a fortune in an offshore account.
The Sun
Offshore account holders are therefore being urged to own up voluntarily about undeclared funds.
Times, Sunday Times
online account
Simple steps, such as paying by monthly direct debit or through an online account, can reduce bills.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Criminals are targeting people with online bank accounts in a number of ways.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
I put £3,000 in my online account but stood to lose a lot more.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
payment account
The data was then used to set up thousands of contactless payments accounts on smartphones.
Times, Sunday Times
Contactless payments accounted for 25billion - up from 7.75billion in the previous year.
The Sun
It said that average mortgage payments accounted for 27 per cent of a new borrower's total income in the second quarter of the year — the best performance since 1999.
Times, Sunday Times
In the first quarter of the year, interest payments accounted for only 4.5 per cent of household income: the lowest level since records began three decades ago.
Times, Sunday Times
Federal equalization payments account for $1.385 billion, or 20.07% of the provincial revenue.
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pension account
Your important investments - your house and pension account - were gaining value.
Times, Sunday Times
Employees will be able either to go into a government pension account or to opt out and join their company's own pension scheme.
Times, Sunday Times
By offering 25p for every 1 saved in a pension account, the government could increase the amount it gives to most people while saving money.
Times, Sunday Times
The voluntary pension insurance fees or transfers to a personal pension account are credited in earned income taxation up to 5000 per year.
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The contributions and returns thereon would be deposited in a non-withdrawable pension account.
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personal account
Here he gives a very personal account of how life has been since then.
Times, Sunday Times
She was seen asking an undercover reporter to wire another 500,000 into her personal account.
The Sun
Workers who are not part of a company scheme will be automatically enrolled into a personal account but will retain the right to opt out.
Times, Sunday Times
As much as it's easier to use your personal account in the early days, it will complicate things when you sit down to file accounts.
Times, Sunday Times
This also applies if you are the computer's only user, in which case you should set up a personal account for your general use.
Times, Sunday Times
private account
`A photostat of a transfer of funds from one of your personal bank accounts to a private account in Andorra.
Mark Burnell CHAMELEON (2002)
A photostat of a transfer of funds from one of your personal bank accounts to a private account in Andorra.
Mark Burnell CHAMELEON (2002)
Your private account was running a bit low and you didn't have the wherewithal to pay for that expensive new suite you'd just ordered.
Meek, M R D IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE (2002)
publish an account
You should publish an account of your endeavours.
Times, Sunday Times
He declined to publish her account.
Times,Sunday Times
In a slightly defensive preface, he acknowledges that it has already become a cliché to publish an account of one's trip.
The Times Literary Supplement
Few photographers were able to film and publish an account of the events.
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You should publish an account of the case.
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published accounts
The company's most recently published accounts detailed a drop in box office takings, albeit on a reduced number of performances.
Times, Sunday Times
All the branches have since published accounts but a review recom-mendation that the finances be centralised has not been carried out since it was agreed three years ago.
Times, Sunday Times
Moreover, travellers who published accounts during the early 19th century, frequently cited the text.
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Eventually, other major newspapers published accounts of these meetings as well.
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And finally, even though many years have passed, there has been no follow-up, no further research by any credible agency or published accounts.
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reserve account
This creates a credit in the central bank's reserve account, which can then be the basis for increased bank lending.
Times, Sunday Times
After it almost happened again in 2010, they started to pile money into a reserve account.
Times, Sunday Times
The committee which runs our block of flats decided to pay for roof repairs from a reserve account, which was accumulated over more than 20 years.
Times, Sunday Times
The reserve account records the activity of the nation's central bank.
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This will include a 900 million loan and the release of 850 million held in reserve accounts.
Times, Sunday Times
retirement account
The equity allowance should not be accessible by the minister until retirement, so it should be placed directly in a minister's tax-sheltered retirement account.
Christianity Today
This investment serves as a base for your retirement planning when you combine it with savings, in individual retirement account, or investments.
Christianity Today
For example, a fund may charge a flat fee for maintaining an individual retirement account for an investor.
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When a retirement account invests in precious metals, the metals are typically held by a third-party custodian.
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True, a custodian bank could also happen to be a retirement account administrator/ custodian, though a commercial bank could also be such a custodian and not be a custodian bank.
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secret account
But for 13 months he channelled the money into a secret account.
The Sun
He set up a secret account nicknamed 'umbrella' to hide losses as he moved from disciplined arbitrage to speculation, exposing the bank to risk.
Times, Sunday Times
If you can afford it, stash away their rent into a secret account and save it up.
The Sun
There was no contingency plan; no money buried in the backyard; no secret account holding millions.
Times, Sunday Times
The average secret account contains 8,717.
Times, Sunday Times
separate account
So, 34 million was squirrelled into a separate account (for tax purposes, obviously) and left unspent.
Times, Sunday Times
This allows you to transfer up to 150 on the phone from a separate account.
Times, Sunday Times
Any tax incurred should be paid from the estate's separate account.
Times, Sunday Times
The 60,000 annual income from this goes into a separate account used for the estate running costs.
Times, Sunday Times
Keep a separate account for all freelance earnings, which you can use to pay your tax bill.
Times, Sunday Times
settle an account
For example, if you have four months left on a 12-month contract, you may have to pay for those months to settle your account.
Times, Sunday Times
But if one waits to pay until the end of the year, it would be extremely difficult to settle the account.
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The credit provider must then sell the goods and use the proceeds to settle the account.
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Settlement after that will not earn cancellation but the register will have a note stating that the debtor has settled his account.
Times, Sunday Times
He claims the right to settle accounts for you.
Christianity Today
tax-free account
A year earlier 46 million more went into the tax-free accounts than was withdrawn.
Times, Sunday Times
These tax-free accounts allow up to 3,600 a year to be saved, in any combination of cash or shares, for under-18s.
Times, Sunday Times
This means you can save or invest up to 1,270 a month into the tax-free accounts.
Times, Sunday Times
You can invest up to 3,000 in one of these tax-free accounts each year.
Times, Sunday Times
The governmentbacked tax-free accounts have played a vital part in creating the culture of saving in this country.
Times, Sunday Times
taxable account
To work out the equivalent return on a taxable account, gross up your mortgage rate by your marginal tax rate.
Times, Sunday Times
To achieve this with a taxable account, basic-rate taxpayers must find interest of 0.38 per cent a year, while higher-rate taxpayers need 0.5 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times
Basic-rate taxpayers would need to earn about 1.9% in a taxable account to earn 1.5% net, while higher-rate taxpayers would need to earn 2.5% and top-rate taxpayers 2.75%.
Times, Sunday Times
In order to get a 9% rate of return in an ordinary taxable account, in a 34% tax bracket, one must earn 13.64%.
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This equals the dollars of tax that would have been paid on the income if earned in a taxable account.
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vivid account
They gave a raw and vivid account of the score, joyfully rambunctious at times, at others so remarkably balanced one was barely aware of their presence.
The Times Literary Supplement
One third will not make it through to the end of the course, and more than 50 fixed-rig cameras give a vivid account of what goes on.
Times, Sunday Times
In fact, the problems in her vivid account both occurred and were resolved more than two years ago.
Times, Sunday Times
Lyrics paint a vivid account of their experiences witnessing the launch.
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She says it took some nudging to get the vivid account he gives in the film.
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witness account
The artist had only a vague eye witness account for the dingo.
Times, Sunday Times
One officer was jailed for fabricating a witness account of the incident.
Times, Sunday Times
A witness account this weekend added further evidence to the theory that the collapse was triggered by a build-up of rainwater on the theatre's roof.
Times, Sunday Times
Many witness accounts collected by the charity were gathered through drawings.
Times, Sunday Times
In witness accounts, the encounter was described as a football match but players passed and ran with the ball in a style similar to rugby.
Times, Sunday Times
written account
He stepped outside and handed a barrister a written account of his position.
Times, Sunday Times
Can you really learn from a written account, especially when only the good things are usually recorded?
Christianity Today
This contains a cover sheet showing their contact details, as well as a print-out of any emails and a written account of all phone calls.
The Times Literary Supplement
In fact, this so-called prehistoric era has left behind something better than a written account - something more exciting, more visceral, more educative.
Times, Sunday Times
There should be greater congruence between the impact of the work - the presence of the artist - and the written account.
The Times Literary Supplement
Translations:
Chinese: 报告, 账户
Japanese: 説明, 預金口座
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