account
nounUS /əˈkaʊnt/
Etymology From Middle English acounte, from Anglo-Norman acunte (“account”), from Old French aconte, from aconter (“to reckon”), from Latin computō (“to sum up”).
10 senses
- 1A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or…
- 2A bank account.
- 3A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds…
- 4A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
- 5A record of events; a relation or narrative.
- 6An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
- 7Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
- 8Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing…
- 9A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a…
- 10Profit; advantage.
1
Accounting, Business, Finance 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.
- The money was refunded to her account.
- The Pueblo bank has advised that the operator opened an account at that bank with currency, and a few days later withdrew the amount.1910, Journal of the American Bankers Association Vol. XI, No. 1, American Bankers Association, page 3
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A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
- Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.2012 January 23, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2013, page 60:
- No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena.
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- Give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 16:2:
4
A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
- Don't trouble yourself on my account.
- on no account
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- on every account
- on all accounts
- […] who evidently a glutton for work, it struck him, was having a quiet forty winks for all intents and purposes on his own private account while Dublin slept.1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
5
A record of events; a relation or narrative.
- An account of a battle.
- A laudible account of the city of London.1657, Jam. Howel [i.e., James Howell], Londinopolis; an Historicall Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London, the Imperial Chamber, and Chief Emporium of Great Britain: […], London: […] J[ohn] Streater, for Henry Twiford, George Sawbridge, Thomas Dring, and John Place, […], →OCLC:
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- The study of the main body of Hittite texts was intrusted^([sic]) to the Austrian scholar Hrozny, who in 1915 published a preliminary account of his results[…]1920, Carl D. Buck, “Hittite an Indo-European Language?”, in Classical Philology, volume 15, number 2, →DOI, page 185:
- According to one published account, said to be based on information provided by foreign missionaries in Chungking, whose reaction may have been influenced by the excesses of the Boxer Rebellion just a few years earlier, Tuan-fang was killed by his own soldiers at Tzu-chou, Shensi province.1991, Thomas Lawton, A Time of Transition: Two Collectors of Chinese Art, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 63:
- In a lapidary style, Qiu Dongping clearly and forcefully describes battlefield actions with simple sentences, giving a blow-by-blow account of successive events with neither understatement nor exaggeration.2000, Yunzhong Shu, chapter 2, in Buglers on the Home Front: The Wartime Practice of the Qiyue School, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 58:
6
An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
- To stand high in your account1623, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, act 3, scene 2:
7
Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
- There is a peculiarity in Homers manner of apoſtrophizing Eumæus, and ſpeaking of him in the ſecond perſon; it is generally apply'd by that Poet only to men of account' and diſtinction, and by it the Poet, as it were, addreſſes them with reſpect; […]1725, Homer, “Book XIV”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, footnote, page 235:
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Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
- Since the system outage, I've been unable to log in to my account.
- In these cases, the agency has to buy through another ad agency that has an account with the media vehicle in question.2000, Sean Mooney, 5,110 Days in Tokyo and Everything's Hunky-dory, page 66:
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- For example, to register an account with Hotmail, you should type www.hotmail.com on the Address bar of your browser to go to the Hotmail e-mail service WEB page.2002, Whizkids Data Creation:
- While the buyer might have to create an account with the online payment service, this account is free; the account exists only to facilitate future transactions, since the buyer's address and payment information doesn't have to be re-entered for each new transaction.2006, Michael Miller, Choosing an Online Payment Service:
- Depending on the shipping options you plan to offer to your customers, you'll probably need to open shipping accounts with FedEx, UPS, and perhaps other couriers as well.2009, Jason Rich, Design and Launch an Online Web Design Business in a Week, page 223:
- Of course, to use iCloud on your iPhone, you need to have an iCloud account.2014, Brad Miser, My iPhone (Covers iOS 8 on iPhone 6/6 Plus, 5S/5C/5, and 4S), page 71:
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Archaic A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
- It seems that this severity weakened his frame, for three years syne come Martinmas he was taken ill with a fever of the bowels, and after a week's sickness he went to his account, where I trust he is accepted.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
10
Profit; advantage.
- The young man soon turned his woodworking skills to some account.
- I removed from the Old Jewry to Fetter Lane, and from thence to Wapping, hoping to get business among the sailors; but it would not turn to account.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput):
- Derived terms
151 terms
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