account

IPA: ʌkˈaʊnt

(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.
(banking) A bank account.
A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
A record of events; a relation or narrative.
An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
(archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
(uncountable) Profit; advantage.

To provide explanation.
(obsolete, transitive) To present an account of; to answer for, to justify.
(intransitive, now rare) To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc.
(transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
(intransitive) To consider that.
(intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.
(intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.
(intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.
(intransitive) To establish the location for someone.
(intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).
To count.
(transitive, now rare) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time).
(obsolete) To count (up), enumerate.
(obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.).

Examples of "account" in Sentences

The account also alleviates the burden of the tax.
The accounting equation is an example of the accounting identity.
The author of the letter said RLM has no financial accountability.
Other businesses include a watch repairer and taxation accountant.
Abandonment of the prior account does not legitimize the new account.
His specialization was in the field of accounting and business management.
The problem is not the account, but the horrible paucity of other accounts.
A participant puts the amount of his tax obligation into this escrow account.
He said the bank will not go out of business, so the brokerage account is save.
The accounts receivable portfolios of business regarding delinquency are in good shape.