Meaning of reckon with | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To settle accounts or claims with.
2. To deal with.
3. To take into account.

Equivalents

Examples

“After a long time, the lord of those seruants commeth, and reckoneth with them.”

“We'll reckon with him after the deed is done.”

“As the country reckons with how to prevent more children from being killed at school, the legacies of the Parkland victims live on.”

“I didn't reckon with his stubbornness.”

“Swiss manufacturers reckon with the possibility of a contractless state with Germany. The Swiss public opinion is afraid that such a contractless state will lead to intolerable interferences of German authorities with Swiss economic life.”

“She had not realised how butcherly the severed vessels would look, and she had not reckoned with the horrid halitus of blood, which steamed to her nostrils under the blazing sun.”

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