Account

/əˈkaʊnt/ · noun

Meaning

(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..

Definitions by Sense

1. (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.
2. (banking) 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.

Example Sentences

The firm failed to file its accounts on time.

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.

No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena.

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.

Give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.

Don't trouble yourself on my account.

on no account

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Word Forms

• accounts
• accounting
• accounted
• no-table-tags
• glossary
• account
• accountest
• accountedst
• accounteth
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