account

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

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 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.
9. (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
10. (uncountable) Profit; advantage.

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To provide explanation.
2. (archaic, intransitive) To provide explanation.
3. (transitive) To provide explanation.
4. (intransitive) To provide explanation.
5. (intransitive) To provide explanation.
6. (intransitive) To provide explanation.
7. (intransitive) To provide explanation.
8. (intransitive) To provide explanation.
9. (intransitive) To provide explanation.
10. (archaic, transitive) To count.
11. (obsolete) To count.
12. (obsolete) To count.
13. Used in phrasal verbs: account for, account of, account to.

Sinonieme

report

story

bill

description

calculation

narrative

deem

tale

explanation

statement

reckoning

consider

information

regard

answer

reckon

history

record

reason

think

🤔

accounting

believe

count

🔢

accredit

invoice

opine

explain

tally

calculate

exposition

news

📰

advertising account

narration

answer for

esteem

sake

🍶

number

🔢

bank account

computation

charge account

list

case

chronicle

interest

score

take into account

yarn

🧶

figure

register

benefit

Vertalings

compte

Konto

cuenta

🔢

conta

conto

rekening

λογαριασμός

rapport

hesap

Bericht

حساب

Rechnung

compte rendu

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ə.ˈkaʊnt/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: acounte

In summary

From Middle English acounte, from Anglo-Norman acunte (“account”), from Old French aconte, from aconter (“to reckon”), from Latin computō (“to sum up”).

Sinne

He also saved money in a high interest account .

Other people , according to this account , began to order the same as Sandwich !

This may account for the coat of arms being thought to be upside down .