| account | |
| 1. n. (accounting) 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. n. (banking) A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal. | |
| to keep one's account at the bank. | |
| 3. n. 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. | |
| 4. n. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive. | |
| on no account | |
| on every account | |
| on all accounts | |
| 5. n. (business) A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit. | |
| 6. n. A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description. | |
| An account of a battle. | |
| 7. n. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment. | |
| 8. n. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement. | |
| 9. n. An authorization to use a service. | |
| I've opened an account with Wikipedia so that I can contribute and partake in the project. | |
| 10. n. (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning. | |
| 11. n. Profit; advantage. | |
| 12. v. To provide explanation. | |
| 13. v. (obsolete, transitive) To present an account of; to answer for, to justify. | |
| 14. v. (intransitive, now rare) To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc. | |
| 15. v. To estimate, consider (something to be as described). | |
| 16. v. (intransitive) To consider that. | |
| 17. v. (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc. | |
| An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received. | |
| 18. v. (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for. | |
| We must account for the use of our opportunities. | |
| 19. v. (intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain. | |
| Idleness accounts for poverty. | |
| 20. v. (intransitive) To establish the location for someone. | |
| After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for. | |
| 21. v. (intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for). | |
| 22. v. To count. | |
| 23. v. (transitive, now rare) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time). | |
| 24. v. (obsolete) To count (up), enumerate. | |
| 25. v. (obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.). | |
