account

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.

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.

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.

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

• Don't trouble yourself on my account.
• on no account

A record of events; a relation or narrative.

• An account of a battle.

An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.

• To stand high in your account

Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.

• There is a peculiarity in Homer's manner of apoſtrophizing Eumæus, 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, addreſſes them with re

Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.

• Since the system outage, I've been unable to log in to my account.

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

• 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.

Profit; advantage.uncountable

• The young man soon turned his woodworking skills to some account.

To provide explanation.; To present an account of; to answer for, to justify.obsoletetransitive

To provide explanation.; To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc.archaicintransitive

To provide explanation.; To estimate, consider (something to be as described).transitive

• I'd account it a privilege to serve you.

To provide explanation.; To consider that.intransitive

• Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.

To provide explanation.; To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.intransitive

• An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.

To provide explanation.; To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.intransitive

• We must account for the use of our opportunities.

To provide explanation.; To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.intransitive

• Idleness accounts for poverty.

To provide explanation.; To establish the location for someone.intransitive

• After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for.

To provide explanation.; To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).intransitive

• Desperately bold at last, the persecuted animals bolted above-ground—the terrier accounted for one, the keeper for another; Rawdon, from flurry and excitement, missed his rat, but on the other hand he half-murdered a ferret.

To count.; To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time).archaictransitive

• 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.