account

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A narrative or record of events.
2. n. A reason given for a particular action or event: What is the account for this loss?
3. n. A report relating to one's conduct: gave a satisfactory account of herself.
4. n. A basis or ground: no reason to worry on that account.
5. n. A formal banking, brokerage, or business relationship established to provide for regular services, dealings, and other financial transactions.
6. n. A precise list or enumeration of financial transactions.
7. n. Money deposited for checking, savings, or brokerage use.
8. n. A customer having a business or credit relationship with a firm: salespeople visiting their accounts.
9. n. Worth, standing, or importance: a landowner of some account.
10. n. Profit or advantage: turned her writing skills to good account.
11. v. To consider as being; deem. See Synonyms at consider. See Usage Note at as¹.
12. account for To constitute the governing or primary factor in: Bad weather accounted for the long delay.
13. account for To provide an explanation or justification for: The suspect couldn't account for his time that night.
14. idiom. call to account To challenge or contest.
15. idiom. call to account To hold answerable for.
16. idiom. on account On credit.
17. idiom. on account of Because of; for the sake of: "We got married on account of the baby” ( Anne Tyler).
18. idiom. on no account Under no circumstances.
19. idiom. on (one's) own account For oneself.
20. idiom. on (one's) own account On one's own; by oneself: He wants to work on his own account.
21. idiom. take into account To take into consideration; allow for.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To count or reckon as; deem; consider; think; hold to be.
2. To reckon or compute; count.
3. To assign or impute; give the credit of; reckon as belonging or attributable.
4. To give an account, reason, or explanation of; explain.
5. To take into consideration.
6. To recount; relate.
7. To render an account or relation of particulars; answer in a responsible character: followed by with or to before a person, and by for before a thing: as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
8. To furnish or assign a reason or reasons; give an explanation: with for: as, idleness accounts for poverty.
9. To reckon; count.
10. n. A reckoning, an enumeration, or a computation; method of computing: as, the Julian account of time.
11. n. A reckoning of money or business; a statement or record of financial or pecuniary transactions, with their debits and credits, or of money received and paid and the balance on hand or due: as, to keep accounts; to make out an account.
12. n. A course of business dealings or relations requiring the keeping of records: as, to have an account with the bank.
13. n. On the stock exchange, that part of the transactions between buyer and seller to be settled on the fortnightly or monthly settling-day: as, I have sold A. B. 500 shares for the account.
14. n. Narrative; relation; statement of facts; a recital, verbal or written, of particular transactions and events: as, an account of the revolution in France.
15. n. A statement of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event: as, no satisfactory account has yet been given of these phenomena.
16. n. An explanatory statement or vindication of one's conduct, such as is given to a superior.
17. n. Reason or consideration; ground: used with on: as, on all accounts; on every account; on account of.
18. n. Estimation; esteem; distinction; dignity; consequence or importance.
19. n. Profit; advantage: as, to find one's account in a pursuit; to turn anything to account.
20. n. Regard; behalf; sake: as, all this trouble I have incurred on your account.
21. n. Sometimes spelled accompt.
22. Accounted; reckoned.

Wiktionary

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.
3. n. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
4. n. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive.
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
7. n. A statement explaining one's conduct.
8. n. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
9. n. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
10. n. An authorization to use a service.
11. n. archaic A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
12. n. Profit; advantage.
13. v. to provide explanation
14. v. to count

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
2. n. 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.
3. n. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc..
4. n. A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description.
5. n. A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.
6. n. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
7. n. Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.
8. v. obsolete To reckon; to compute; to count.
9. v. rare To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; -- with to.
10. v. To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.
11. v. obsolete To recount; to relate.
12. v. To render or receive an account or relation of particulars.
13. v. To render an account; to answer in judgment; -- with for.
14. v. To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a short account of the news
2. n. importance or value
3. n. an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered
4. n. grounds.
5. v. keep an account of
6. n. the act of informing by verbal report
7. n. a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.
8. v. furnish a justifying analysis or explanation
9. n. a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services
10. v. be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something
11. n. a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance
12. n. a record or narrative description of past events
13. n. the quality of taking advantage
14. v. to give an account or representation of in words