Search Details
Word: account
(lookup usage)
(lookup stats)
Meaning:
Noun:
- An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgement.
- archaic A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning
- 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; as, to keep one's '''account''' at the bank.
- A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgement thereon.
- A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.
- A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an '''account''' of a battle.
- A subscription to a service.
- Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.
Source: Wiktionary
| Src Info »
Verb:
- with "for" To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain
- intransitive To render or receive an account or relation of particulars
- with "for" To render an account; to answer in judgement.
- obsolete To reckon; to compute; to count.
- rare|with "to" To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to Edward Hyde Clarendon
- transitive To get revenge on.
- transitive To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.
Source: Wiktionary
| Src Info »