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ac·count
I. \əˈkau̇nt also aˈ-\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English acount, accompt, from Old French aconte, from aconter, v.
1. archaic : counting, enumeration, computation
< a pupil good at account >
2.
a. : a record of debit and credit entries chronologically posted to a ledger page from books of original entry to cover transactions involving a particular item (as cash or notes receivable) or a particular person or concern
b. : a statement of transactions during a fiscal period showing the resulting balance
3. : a collection of items to be balanced — usually used in plural
4. : a statement or explanation of one's activities, conduct, and discharge of responsibilities especially in financial administration
< he could give no satisfactory account of what he had done with the money >
5.
a. : a periodically rendered reckoning (as one listing charged purchases and credits)
< a grocery account >
b. : the patronage involved in establishing or maintaining an account : business : business relationship
< glad to secure that customer's account >
also : patron, customer, client
< a salesman with many good accounts >
6.
a. : value or importance especially as attributed by others
< an official of considerable account >
b. : esteem, judgment
< he stands high in their account >
7. : profit, advantage
< he turned his wit to good account >
8.
a. : a statement or exposition of underlying or explanatory reasons, causes, grounds, or motives
< no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena >
b. : a reason giving rise to an action, decision, opinion, or any other result : basis
< on that account he refused the offer >
< on all accounts you must do it >
c. : attention, consideration : careful thought
< don't leave that point out of account >
< take account of what you are doing >
d. : a usually mental record based on close observation
< keep careful account of all you do >
9.
a. : a statement of facts or events
< a newspaper remarkable for its sober accounts of the theater world >
b. : an informative report or descriptive narration
< an account of the varieties of tropical vegetation >
< the account of a battle >
c. : a study or narrative usually nonfictional and wholly objective
< an illuminating account of colonial days >
10. : hearsay — usually used in plural
< by all accounts he is very rich >
< he has been quite successful, from all accounts >
11. : a sum of money or its equivalent deposited in the common cash of a bank and subject to withdrawal at the option of the depositor
12. : a common-law action for a statement of receipts and disbursements and the recovery of any balance due; also : the writ by which it was brought
13. : the fortnightly or monthly settlement between buyers and sellers on the London Stock Exchange; also : the period from one such settlement to another — usually used with the; compare account days, term settlement
14. : performance or rendition (as of a musical composition)
< the pianist gave a sensitive account of it >
Synonyms: see use II
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- for account of
- for the account
- for the account and risk of
- in account with
- on account of
- on one's own account
II. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English accounten, acounten, accompten, from Middle French aconter, acompter, from a- (from Latin ad-) + conter, compter to count — more at count
transitive verb
1.
a. obsolete : to calculate the numerical quantity of : count
< my father and my mother account the days — William Caxton >
b. obsolete : to determine or establish by comparison with a fixed point or standard
c. obsolete : to include in an enumeration or calculation
< accounting the Lent season — Thomas Cogan >
d. archaic : credit, allot
e. : to probe into : give an analytical report on : take or render account of
< the report will be accounted by the finance committee >
2. : to think of as : look upon as : rate, regard, or classify as — usually used passively or reflexively
< he was accounted a lawyer of ability — G.S.Bryan >
< they accounted themselves fortunate >
intransitive verb
1. obsolete : count
2. archaic : to give or receive a financial account : settle an account
3. : to furnish a justifying analysis or a detailed explanation of one's financial credits and debits or of the discharge of any of one's responsibilities — used with for
< the broker accounted satisfactorily for his expenditures >
< he could not account for the time spent away from his post >
4. : to furnish substantial reasons or a convincing explanation : make clear or reveal basic causes — used with for
< a consistent theory which would account for the facts — G.C.Sellery >
5.
a. : to be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, use, or disposal of an indicated thing — used with for
< the region accounts for a large part of usable timber >
b. : to bring about the capture, death, or destruction of an indicated thing — used with for
< his dog accounted for two of the rabbits >
Synonyms: see consider, explain |