A reason given for a particular action or event: What is the account for this loss?
A report relating to one's conduct: gave a satisfactory account of herself.
A basis or ground: no reason to worry on that account.
A formal banking, brokerage, or business relationship established to provide for regular services, dealings, and other financial transactions.
A precise list or enumeration of financial transactions.
Money deposited for checking, savings, or brokerage use.
A customer having a business or credit relationship with a firm: salespeople visiting their accounts.
Abbr. a/c or acct.
A formal banking, brokerage, or business relationship established to provide for regular services, dealings, and other financial transactions.
A precise list or enumeration of financial transactions.
Money deposited for checking, savings, or brokerage use.
A customer having a business or credit relationship with a firm: salespeople visiting their accounts.
Worth, standing, or importance: a landowner of some account.
Profit or advantage: turned her writing skills to good account.
tr.v.
ac·count·ed, ac·count·ing, ac·counts To consider as being; deem. See Synonyms at consider. See Usage Note at as1. Phrasal Verb(s): account for
To constitute the governing or primary factor in: Bad weather accounted for the long delay.
To provide an explanation or justification for: The suspect couldn't account for his time that night.
Idiom(s):
call to account
To challenge or contest.
To hold answerable for.
Idiom(s):
on accountOn credit.
Idiom(s):
on account ofBecause of; for the sake of: "We got married on account of the baby"(Anne Tyler).
Idiom(s):
on no accountUnder no circumstances.
Idiom(s):
on (one's) own account
For oneself.
On one's own; by oneself: He wants to work on his own account.
Idiom(s):
take into accountTo take into consideration; allow for.
[Middle English, from Old French acont, from aconter, to reckon : a-, to (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + cunter, to count (from Latin computāre, to sum up; see compute).]
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