account

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

accounts

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

account

past (v2)

accounted

past participle (v3)

accounted

present participle

accounting

3rd person singular

accounts

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 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.

   • The firm failed to file its accounts on time.

2. 2.A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.

   • No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena.

3. 3.A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.

   • Don't trouble yourself on my account.

4. 4.A bank account.

   • 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.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To provide explanation.

   • I'd account it a privilege to serve you.
   • The Pagan Hercules, why was he accounted a hero?
   • We must account for the use of our opportunities.

2. 2.Used in phrasal verbs: account for, account of, account to.

Overall

Common· #947

By learning goal

Everyday conversation

Rare

General reading & writing

Common

Academic

Uncommon

Literature

Rare

Synonyms

• chronicle
• history
• story

Word family

• accounting