account

Meaning

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. A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
10. Profit; advantage.

report

story

advertising account

charge account

business relationship

news report

acc

user account

all about

take stock of

news story

written report

parallelization

registration

weight

his-tory

scale value

balance statement

calculation sheet

address

appendix

be responsible

Frequency

Hyphenated as

ac‧count

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ə.ˈkaʊnt/

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

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