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reck⋅on

[rek-uh

–verb (used with object)

1.	to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.

2.	to esteem or consider; regard as: to be reckoned an authority in the field.

3.	Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. to think or suppose.

–verb (used without object)

4.	to count; make a computation or calculation.

5.	to settle accounts, as with a person (often fol. by up).

6.	to count, depend, or rely, as in expectation (often fol. by on).

7.	Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. to think or suppose.

—Verb phrase

reckon with,

a.	to include in consideration or planning; anticipate: He hadn't reckoned with so many obstacles.

b.	to deal with: I have to reckon with many problems every day.

Origin:
bef. 1000; ME rekenen, OE gerecenian (attested once) to report, pay; c. G rechnen to compute

Related forms:

reck⋅on⋅a⋅ble, adjective

Synonyms:
1. enumerate. 2. account, deem, estimate, judge.

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reck·on (rěk'ən)

v. reck·oned, reck·on·ing, reck·ons

v. tr.

To count or compute: reckon the cost. See Synonyms at calculate.
To consider as being; regard as. See Synonyms at consider.
Informal To think or assume.

v. intr.

To make a calculation; figure.
To rely with confident expectancy. See Synonyms at rely.
Informal To think or assume.

Phrasal Verb(s):
reckon withTo take into account or deal with: a man to be reckoned with.
reckon withoutTo fail to consider or deal with; ignore.

[Middle English reknen, from Old English gerecenian, to recount, arrange; see reg- in Indo-European roots.]

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Reckon

Reck"on\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reckoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Reckoning.] [OE. rekenen, AS. gerecenian to explain; akin to D. rekenen to reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. See Reck, v. t.]

1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

The priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain. --Lev. xxvii. 18.

I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church. --Addison.

2. To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.

He was reckoned among the transgressors. --Luke xxii. 37.

For him I reckon not in high estate. --Milton.

3. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.

Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. --Rom. iv. 9.

Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime. --Hawthorne.

4. To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause; as, I reckon he won't try that again. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]

Syn: To number; enumerate; compute; calculate; estimate; value; esteem; account; repute. See Calculate, Guess.

Reckon

Reck"on\, v. i. 1. To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing. --Shak.

2. To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

"Parfay," sayst thou, "sometime he reckon shall." --Chaucer.

To reckon for, to answer for; to pay the account for. "If they fail in their bounden duty, they shall reckon for it one day." --Bp. Sanderson.

To reckon on or upon, to count or depend on.

To reckon with, to settle accounts or claims with; -- used literally or figuratively.

After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. --Matt. xxv. 19.

To reckon without one's host, to ignore in a calculation or arrangement the person whose assent is essential; hence, to reckon erroneously.

Language Translation for : reckon

Spanish: considerar,

German: betrachten,

Japanese: ～とみなす

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reckon

O.E. gerecenian "to recount, relate," from W.Gmc. *(ga)rekenojanan (cf. O.Fris. rekenia, M.L.G. rekenen, O.H.G. rehhanon, Ger. rechnen, Goth. rahnjan "to count, reckon"), from P.Gmc. *rakinaz "ready, straightforward," from PIE *reg- "to move in a straight line." I reckon, used parenthetically, is now dialectal (Southern U.S.), but dates from 1603 and formerly was in literary use (Richardson, etc.). Reckoning is recorded from c.1300.

reckon

In addition to the idiom beginning with reckon, also see force to be reckoned with.

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