account
IPA: ʌkˈaʊnt
noun
- (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.
verb
- 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.).
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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.
- Regular Saver account and the same amount into N&P's Family Regular Saver account.
- The accounts receivable portfolios of business regarding delinquency are in good shape.
- Simpler Controller def create @account = Account. new params [: account] if @account. save redirect_to @account else render: template = >
- The Controller def create @account = Account. new params [: account] Account. transaction do if @account. save @account. projects.create: name = >
- In fact, the average easy access charity saving account offers a pitiful 0. 38% interest - this is 0. 34% lower than the average personal easy access savings account**.
- XD thanks. it's amazing i've been playing since for (looks up 1st account) 61 months x_x and i found my skype software XD just need a mic * looks at empty bank account* maybe I'll get it for Christmas or something XD oh and I stole the e with an accent from freetranslation. com or something like that. that's how I do my Italian homework hurray!