account
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.
Noun 4 meanings
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.
“The firm failed to file its accounts on time.”
A bank account.
“The money was refunded to her account.”
A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
“No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena.”
A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
“Don't trouble yourself on my account.”
Verb 2 meanings
To provide explanation.
“I'd account it a privilege to serve you.”
Used in phrasal verbs: account for, account of, account to.
Etymology
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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ACCOUNT at a glance
ACCOUNT has 7 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (A 1 + C 3 + C 3 + O 1 + U 1 + N 1 + T 1) and 15 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #585 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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