Meaning of Account | Babel Free

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1. 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. To consider as being; deem. See Synonyms at consider. See Usage Note at as1.
3. A bank account.
4. On credit.
5. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
6. Because of; for the sake of: "We got married on account of the baby" (Anne Tyler).
7. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
8. Under no circumstances.
9. A record of events; a relation or narrative.
10. For someone's benefit: It's nice of you to make such an effort on his account.
11. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
12. To take into consideration; allow for.
13. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
14. To look upon in a particular way:consider, deem, esteem, reckon, regard, see, view.
15. Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
16. To offer reasons for or a cause of:explain, justify, rationalize.
17. A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
    archaic
18. the work of an accountant. He is studying accountancy. rekeningkunde عِلْم المُحَاسَبَه счетоводство contabilidade účetnictví die Buchführung bogholderi; regnskabsføring; revision λογιστικήcontabilidad raamatupidamine حسابداری kirjanpito comptabilité חֶשְבּוֹנָאוּת लेखाशास्त्र računovodstvo könyvelés akuntansi bókhald ragioneria 会計学 회계 업무 buhalterija, sąskaityba grāmatvedība perakaunan boekhoudingregnskapsføring, bokføringksięgowość, rachunkowość حساپ لرل contabilidade contabilitate бухгалтер...
19. Profit; advantage.
    uncountable
20. a keeper or inspector of (money) accounts. He employs an accountant to deal with his income tax. rekenmeester مُحَاسِب счетоводител contador účetní, revizor účtů der/die Buchhalter(in) bogholder; regnskabsfører; revisor λογιστήςcontable raamatupidaja, revident حسابدار kirjanpitäjä comptable רוֹאֶה חֶשְׁבּוֹן लेखाकार računovođa könyvelő akuntan bókari, endurskoðandi ragioniere 会計士 회계사 buhalteris, sąskaitininkas grāmatvedis; rēķinvedis akauntan accountantregnskapsfører, bokholderksięgowy حساپ ل...

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena.”

“Give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.”

“Don't trouble yourself on my account.”

“on no account”

“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.”

“An account of a battle.”

“A laudible account of the city of London.”

“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[…]”

“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.”

“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.”

“To stand high in your account”

“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; […]”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Of course, to use iCloud on your iPhone, you need to have an iCloud account.”

“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.”

“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.”

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