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account

Pronunciation: /əˈkaʊnt/

The English word “account” has 20 meanings listed here.

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.
  2. A bank account.
  3. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
  4. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
  5. A record of events; a relation or narrative.
  6. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
  7. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
  8. Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
  9. A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
  10. Profit; advantage.

verb

  1. To present an account of; to answer for, to justify.
  2. To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc.
  3. To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
  4. To consider that.
  5. To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.
  6. To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.
  7. To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.
  8. To establish the location for someone.
  9. To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).
  10. To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time).

Etymology

From Middle English acounte, from Anglo-Norman acunte (“account”), from Old French aconte, from aconter (“to reckon”), from Latin computō (“to sum up”).

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