account
/əˈkaʊnt/ noun, verb
Forms accounts accounting accounted accountest accountedst accounteth
- noun (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. “The firm failed to file its accounts on time.”
- noun (banking) A bank account. “The money was refunded to her account.”
- noun 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.”
- noun A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake. “Don't trouble yourself on my account.”
- noun A record of events; a relation or narrative. “An account of a battle.”
- noun An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
- noun Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
- noun Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system. “Since the system outage, I've been unable to log in to my account.”
- verb (obsolete, transitive) To present an account of; to answer for, to justify.
- verb (intransitive, now rare) To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc.
- verb (transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described). “I'd account it a privilege to serve you.”
- verb (intransitive) To consider that.
- verb (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc. “An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.”
- verb (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for. “We must account for the use of our opportunities.”
- verb (intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain. “Idleness accounts for poverty.”
- verb (intransitive) To establish the location for someone. “After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for.”
Synonyms
accounting explanation narrative narration relation recital report description membership registration appraise count esteem see censure consider deem hold dub find history chronicle story news report write up business relationship score account statement bill invoice
Etymology
From Middle English acounte, from Anglo-Norman acunte (“account”), from Old French aconte, from aconter (“to reckon”), from Latin computō (“to sum up”).
From Old French acounter, accomptere et al., from a- + conter (“to count”)). Compare count.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.
- noun 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; as, to keep one's account at the bank.
- verb To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
- verb To render an account; to answer in judgment; --with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.
Etymology [OE. acount, account, accompt, OF. acont, fr. aconter. See Account, v. t., Count, n., 1.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “account”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details