account

Meaning

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

Verb

1. (obsolete) To provide explanation.
2. To provide explanation.
3. To provide explanation.
4. To provide explanation.
5. To provide explanation.
6. To provide explanation.
7. To provide explanation.
8. To provide explanation.
9. To provide explanation.
10. To count.
11. (obsolete) To count.
12. (obsolete) To count.

Concepts

account

report

story

bill

description

calculation

tale

deem

narrative

explanation

reckoning

statement

consider

information

history

reckon

regard

answer

record

reason

think

accounting

count

accredit

believe

invoice

opine

tally

calculate

explain

exposition

news

narration

advertising account

number

take into account

interest

sake

case

yarn

chronicle

list

answer for

score

charge account

esteem

computation

bank account

check

figure

account for

advantage

benefit

good

communication

message

value

describe

write up

recital

register

motive

debt

fairy tale

calculus

add up

work out

clarify

construe

concern

significance

notice

notification

book

rate

accountant

finance

treasurer

allegation

payment

A/C

a/c

acct.

instance

issue

item

party

person

saying

counting

judge

inventory

picture

tidings

news report

account statement

business relationship

depiction

reportage

telling

acc

index

journal

show

tab

credit

settlement

arithmetic

estimate

legend

be

profit

constitute

formulate

gloss

narrate

relate

presume

return

reference

talk

acknowledge

admit

avow

concede

recognize

addition

adjunct

appendix

application

supplement

acquaintance

connection

interrelation

relation

relationship

understanding

ponder

reflect

see

develop

grow

increase

raise

reveal

unfold

unfurl

unroll

unwrap

importance

seriousness

stake

weight

advice

announcement

info

estimation

written report

paymaster

article

news story

declaration

hearsay

rumor

baby

content

passage

term

text

catalogue

be responsible

adventures

biography

his-tory

life

details

anecdote

delineation

entry

ground

representation

deposit

ac

circumstances

measure

all about

affair

authority

business

cause

command

order

pleasure

subject

thing

things

will

wish

word

literature

because of

on account of

composition

display

essay

exhibition

exposure

fair

thesis

version

adjustment

compute

count in

reckon on

classification

clause

course

numeration

calculation sheet

balance statement

behalf

enumeration

appraise

assess

take stock of

explication

mortgage

impute

plan

quantity

attention

user account

accountability

accountable

draw

for

in charge

of

responsible

something

distinction

level

rank

rating

scale value

strength

worth

asset

favor

perk

avail

favour

gain

utility

bearing

essence

import

magnitude

meaning

moment

purport

semantics

sense

compose

comprise

construct

fashion

form

make

make up

articulate

explicate

expound

interpret

read

rede

brief

commentate

cover

exposit

debriefing

factuality

factualness

comment

commentary

excuse

plea

pretext

minutes

proceedings

consideration

address

direction

leadership

folktale

myth

briefing

registration

act

agent

depict

give

mean

play

portray

represent

run

speak

stage

stand

symbolize

dispatch

charge

tell

chit

calculi

figuring

operation

parallelization

Hyphenated as

ac‧count

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ə.ˈkaʊnt/

Etymology

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

Sentences

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 .