Reckoning

/ˈɹɛkənɪŋ/ · verb

Meaning

present participle and gerund of reckon.

Definitions by Sense

1. present participle and gerund of reckon
2. The action of calculating or estimating something.
3. An opinion or judgement.
4. A summing up or appraisal.
5. The settlement of accounts, as between parties.
6. The working out of consequences or retribution for one's actions.
7. (archaic) The bill (UK) or check (US), especially at an inn or tavern.
8. (archaic) Rank or status.

Example Sentences

By that reckoning, it would take six weeks to go five miles.

So saying, he called for a reckoning for the wine, and throwing down the price of the additional bottle which he had himself introduced, rose as if to take leave of us.

When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.

day of reckoning

My mother's father was a small-town school teacher, an occupation with somewhat more status (teachers are petit bourgeois by the standard reckoning) which nevertheless provided little more income than on my father's side.

The research presented in this paper is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reckoning of an expanding set of portmanteau terms based on the word English.

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