account
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ə.ˈkaʊnt/
account (plural accounts)
- (accounting) 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. [from c. 1300]
- (banking) A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal. [from 1833]
- to keep one's account at the bank.
- 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.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Luke 16:2 ↗:
- Give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.
- 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
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630 ↗; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483 ↗:
- {...}} who evidently a glutton for work, it struck him, was having a quiet forty winks for all intents and purposes on his own private account while Dublin slept.
- (business) A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit.
- A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description. [from c. 1610]
- An account of a battle.
- A laudable account of the city of London.
- An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
- Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
- 1725, Homer; [Alexander Pope], transl., “Book XIV”, in The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, OCLC 8736646 ↗, footnote:
- There is a peculiarity in Homer's manner of apostrophizing Eumaeus, and speaking of him in the second person; it is generally apply'd by that Poet only to men of account and distinction, and by it the Poet, as it were, adresses them with respect
- An authorization to use a service.
- I've opened an account with Wikipedia so that I can contribute and partake in the project.
- (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
- Profit; advantage.
- (registry of pecuniary transactions)
- (statement of occurrences) narrative, narration, relation, recital, description, explanation
- (a statement of reasons) accounting, explanation
- (a reason)
- (a vindication) defense, excuse, explanation
- (estimate)
- (value, importance)
- (authorization to use a service) membership, registration, username
- French: compte
- German: Konto
- Italian: contabilità
- Portuguese: conta
- Russian: счёт
- Spanish: cuenta
- French: récit
- German: Begründung
- Italian: resoconto, descrizione, ragione, motivo
- Portuguese: relatório
- Russian: основа́ние
- Spanish: reporte
- French: rapport, récit
- German: Bericht
- Italian: resoconto, descrizione, racconto
- Portuguese: relato
- Russian: изложе́ние
- Spanish: reporte, relato, versión, relato
- German: Rechenschaft
- Italian: giustificazione, motivo, ragione, causa, caso
- Russian: объясне́ние
- Spanish: justificación
- French: compte
- German: Konto
- Italian: utenza, fruizione
- Portuguese: conta
- Russian: учётная за́пись
- Spanish: cuenta
account (accounts, present participle accounting; past and past participle accounted)
- To provide explanation.
- (obsolete, transitive) To present an account of; to answer for, to justify. [14th-17th c.]
- (intransitive, now rare) To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc. [from 14th c.]
- (transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described). [from 14th c.]
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present (book), III.8:
- The Pagan Hercules, why was he accounted a hero?
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present (book), III.8:
- (intransitive) To consider that. [from 14th c.]
- 1611, Bible, Authorized (King James) Version, Hebrews XI.19:
- Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
- 1611, Bible, Authorized (King James) Version, Hebrews XI.19:
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc. [from 15th c.]
- An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for. [from 16th c.]
- We must account for the use of our opportunities.
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain. [from 16th c.]
- Idleness accounts for poverty.
- (intransitive) To establish the location for someone. [from 19th c.]
- After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for.
- (intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for). [from 19th c.]
- To count.
- (transitive, now rare) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time). [from 14th c.]
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
- neither the motion of the Moon, whereby moneths are computed; nor of the Sun, whereby years are accounted, consisteth of whole numbers, but admits of fractions, and broken parts, as we have already declared concerning the Moon.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
- (obsolete) To count (up), enumerate. [14th-17th c.]
- (obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.). [14th-16th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:
- Long worke it were / Here to account the endlesse progeny / Of all the weeds that bud and blossome there [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:
- (transitive, now rare) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time). [from 14th c.]
- (to estimate; to consider) see Thesaurus:deem
- Italian: reputare, considerare, ritenere
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