Sekirov Dictionary

account

/əˈkaʊnt/

noun10

  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 service that lets someone have money in a bank under their own name
  3. Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
  4. A record of events; a relation or narrative.
  5. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
  6. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
  7. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
  8. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
  9. Profit; advantage.
  10. (no longer used) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.

verb15

  1. To provide explanation.
  2. To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.
  3. To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.
  4. To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.
  5. To establish the location for someone.
  6. Used in phrasal verbs: account for, account of, account to.
  7. To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).
  8. To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
  9. To consider that.
  10. To count.
  11. (no longer used) To present an account of; to answer for, to justify.
  12. (no longer used) To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc.
  13. (no longer used) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time).
  14. (no longer used) To count (up), enumerate.
  15. (no longer used) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.).
forms

accounted · accountedst · accounting · accounteth · accounts · accountest

Phrases with account

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