account

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A registry of pecuniary transactions

   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.
2. 2

   A bank account.

   • The money was refunded to her account.
   • The Pueblo bank has advised that the operator opened an account at that bank with currency, and a few days later withdrew the amount.
3. 3

   A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event

   A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.

   • Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
   • No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena.
   • Give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.
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   1. 4

      A reason, grounds, consideration, motive

      A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.

      • Don't trouble yourself on my account.
      • on no account
      • on every account
   2. 5

      A record of events

      A record of events; a relation or narrative.

      • An account of a battle.
      • A laudible account of the city of London.
      • The study of the main body of Hittite texts was intrusted^([sic]) to the Austrian scholar Hrozny, who in 1915 published a preliminary account of his results[…]
   3. 6

      An estimate or estimation

      An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.

      • To stand high in your account
   4. 7

      Importance

      Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.

   5. 8

      Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.

      • Since the system outage, I've been unable to log in to my account.
      • In these cases, the agency has to buy through another ad agency that has an account with the media vehicle in question.
      • For example, to register an account with Hotmail, you should type www.hotmail.com on the Address bar of your browser to go to the Hotmail e-mail service WEB page.
   6. 9

      A reckoning

      A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.

      • It seems that this severity weakened his frame, for three years syne come Martinmas he was taken ill with a fever of the bowels, and after a week's sickness he went to his account, where I trust he is accepted.
   7. 10

      Profit

      Profit; advantage.

      • The young man soon turned his woodworking skills to some account.
      • I removed from the Old Jewry to Fetter Lane, and from thence to Wapping, hoping to get business among the sailors; but it would not turn to account.
   8. 11

      To provide explanation.

   9. 12

      To count.

      • 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.
   10. 13

       Used in phrasal verbs

       Used in phrasal verbs: account for, account of, account to.

The neighborhood

• neighboraccountable
• neighboraccountant