account
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkaʊnt/
rhymes: -aʊnt
Forms: form: accounts
Etymology: From Middle English acounte, from Anglo-Norman acunte (“account”), from Old French aconte, from aconter (“to reckon”), from Latin computō (“to sum up”).
Senses: examples: text: The firm failed to file its accounts on time.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: 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.
examples: text: The money was refunded to her account.
text: The Pueblo bank has advised that the operator opened an account at that bank with currency, and a few days later withdrew the amount.
ref: 1910, Journal of the American Bankers Association Vol. XI, No. 1, American Bankers Association, page 3
topics: banking
business
glosses: A bank account.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2012 January 23, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 60:
text: No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena.
text: Give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 16:2:
synonyms: accounting
explanation
glosses: A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
examples: text: Don't trouble yourself on my account.
text: on no account
text: on every account
text: on all accounts
text: […] 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.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
examples: text: An account of a battle.
text: A laudible account of the city of London.
ref: 1657, Jam. Howel [i.e., James Howell], Londinopolis; an Historicall Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London, the Imperial Chamber, and Chief Emporium of Great Britain: […], London: […] J[ohn] Streater, for Henry Twiford, George Sawbridge, Thomas Dring, and John Place, […], →OCLC:
text: 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[…]
ref: 1920, Carl D. Buck, “Hittite an Indo-European Language?”, in Classical Philology, volume 15, number 2, →DOI, page 185:
text: 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.
ref: 1991, Thomas Lawton, A Time of Transition: Two Collectors of Chinese Art, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 63:
text: 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.
ref: 2000, Yunzhong Shu, chapter 2, in Buglers on the Home Front: The Wartime Practice of the Qiyue School, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 58:
synonyms: narrative
narration
relation
recital
report
description
explanation
glosses: A record of events; a relation or narrative.
examples: text: To stand high in your account
ref: 1623, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, act 3, scene 2:
glosses: An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
examples: text: 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; […]
ref: 1725, Homer, “Book XIV”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, footnote, page 235:
glosses: Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
examples: text: Since the system outage, I've been unable to log in to my account.
text: In these cases, the agency has to buy through another ad agency that has an account with the media vehicle in question.
ref: 2000, Sean Mooney, 5,110 Days in Tokyo and Everything's Hunky-dory, page 66:
text: 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.
ref: 2002, Whizkids Data Creation:
text: 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.
ref: 2006, Michael Miller, Choosing an Online Payment Service:
text: 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.
ref: 2009, Jason Rich, Design and Launch an Online Web Design Business in a Week, page 223:
text: Of course, to use iCloud on your iPhone, you need to have an iCloud account.
ref: 2014, Brad Miser, My iPhone (Covers iOS 8 on iPhone 6/6 Plus, 5S/5C/5, and 4S), page 71:
synonyms: membership
registration
meronyms: username
glosses: Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
examples: text: The young man soon turned his woodworking skills to some account.
text: 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.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput):
glosses: Profit; advantage.
Derived terms: sense: Financial terms
word: accountancy
sense: Financial terms
word: account balance
sense: Financial terms
word: account book
sense: Financial terms
word: account code
sense: Financial terms
word: account day
sense: Financial terms
word: accounter
sense: Financial terms
word: account executive
sense: Financial terms
word: accountholder
sense: Financial terms
word: accountless
sense: Financial terms
word: account man
sense: Financial terms
word: account manager
sense: Financial terms
word: account number
sense: Financial terms
word: account payable
sense: Financial terms
word: account receivable
sense: Financial terms
word: account stated
sense: Financial terms
word: account statement
sense: Financial terms
word: active account
sense: Financial terms
word: adjustment account
sense: Financial terms
word: bank account
sense: Financial terms
word: book account
sense: Financial terms
word: capital account
sense: Financial terms
word: cash account
sense: Financial terms
word: cast accounts
sense: Financial terms
word: charge account
sense: Financial terms
word: checking account
sense: Financial terms
word: chequing account
sense: Financial terms
word: client account
sense: Financial terms
word: concentration account
sense: Financial terms
word: control account
sense: Financial terms
word: credit account
sense: Financial terms
word: current account
sense: Financial terms
word: custodial account
sense: Financial terms
word: customer account
sense: Financial terms
word: debit account
sense: Financial terms
word: deferred account
sense: Financial terms
word: demand account
sense: Financial terms
word: deposit account
sense: Financial terms
word: discretionary account
sense: Financial terms
word: dormant account
sense: Financial terms
word: drawing account
sense: Financial terms
word: e-account
sense: Financial terms
word: escrow account
sense: Financial terms
word: expense account
sense: Financial terms
word: final account
sense: Financial terms
word: flex account
sense: Financial terms
word: frozen account
sense: Financial terms
word: general account
sense: Financial terms
word: giro account
sense: Financial terms
word: house account
sense: Financial terms
word: insured account
sense: Financial terms
word: joint account
sense: Financial terms
word: managed account
sense: Financial terms
word: margin account
sense: Financial terms
word: merchant account
sense: Financial terms
word: mixed account
sense: Financial terms
word: money of account
sense: Financial terms
word: multiaccount
sense: Financial terms
word: nostro account
sense: Financial terms
word: NOW account
sense: Financial terms
word: numbered account
sense: Financial terms
word: omnibus account
sense: Financial terms
word: open account
sense: Financial terms
word: option account
sense: Financial terms
word: overdraft checking account
sense: Financial terms
word: pension account
sense: Financial terms
word: profit and loss account
sense: Financial terms
word: reserved account
sense: Financial terms
word: restricted account
sense: Financial terms
word: retirement account
sense: Financial terms
word: root account
sense: Financial terms
word: savings account
sense: Financial terms
word: separate account
sense: Financial terms
word: settle one's account
sense: Financial terms
word: shadow account
sense: Financial terms
word: share premium account
sense: Financial terms
word: stock account
sense: Financial terms
word: subaccount
sense: Financial terms
word: suspense account
sense: Financial terms
word: sweep account
sense: Financial terms
word: Swiss bank account
sense: Financial terms
word: time account
sense: Financial terms
word: time deposit account
sense: Financial terms
word: trading account
sense: Financial terms
word: transaction account
sense: Financial terms
word: trust account
sense: Financial terms
word: trustee account
sense: Financial terms
word: undermargined account
sense: Financial terms
word: undivided account
sense: Financial terms
word: unit of account
sense: Financial terms
word: valuation account
sense: Financial terms
word: vostro account
sense: Financial terms
word: western account
sense: Financial terms
word: wrap account
sense: Financial terms
word: zero-balance account
sense: Non-financial terms; account current
word: a running
sense: Non-financial terms; account current
word: continued account between two
sense: Non-financial terms; account current
word: more parties
sense: Non-financial terms; account current
word: or a statement of the particulars of such an account
sense: Non-financial terms
word: accountment
sense: Non-financial terms
english: Law
translation: Law
word: a writ of account:: a writ which the plaintiff brings demanding that the defendant shall render his just account
sense: Non-financial terms
word: or show good cause to the contrary
sense: Non-financial terms
word: -- called also an action of account
sense: Non-financial terms
word: burner account
sense: Non-financial terms
word: call to account
sense: Non-financial terms
word: cast up one's accounts
sense: Non-financial terms
word: email account
sense: Non-financial terms
word: find one's account
sense: Non-financial terms
word: Flemish account
sense: Non-financial terms
word: flop account
sense: Non-financial terms
word: gimmick account
sense: Non-financial terms
word: give a good account of oneself
sense: Non-financial terms
word: go on the account
sense: Non-financial terms
word: hold to account
sense: Non-financial terms; in account with
word: in a relation requiring an account to be kept
sense: Non-financial terms
word: latitude by account
sense: Non-financial terms
word: lay one's account
sense: Non-financial terms
english: Obsolete
translation: Obsolete
word: make account:: to have an opinion
sense: Non-financial terms
word: expectation
sense: Non-financial terms
word: to reckon
sense: Non-financial terms; make account of
word: to hold in estimation
sense: Non-financial terms; make account of
word: to esteem
sense: Non-financial terms; make account of
word: as
sense: Non-financial terms; make account of
word: he makes small account of beauty
sense: Non-financial terms
word: no-account
sense: Non-financial terms
word: on account
sense: Non-financial terms; on account of
word: for the sake of
sense: Non-financial terms; on account of
word: by reason of
sense: Non-financial terms; on account of
word: because of
sense: Non-financial terms
word: on no account
sense: Non-financial terms; on one's own account
word: for one's own interest
sense: Non-financial terms; on one's own account
word: behalf
sense: Non-financial terms
word: on someone's account
sense: Non-financial terms
word: own-account
sense: Non-financial terms
word: shell account
sense: Non-financial terms
word: short account
sense: Non-financial terms
word: sleeper account
sense: Non-financial terms
word: smurf account
sense: Non-financial terms
word: spam account
sense: Non-financial terms
word: T-account
sense: Non-financial terms
word: take account of
sense: Non-financial terms
word: or take into account: to take into consideration
sense: Non-financial terms
word: to notice
sense: Non-financial terms
word: take into account
sense: Non-financial terms
word: theoretical account
sense: Non-financial terms
word: turn to account
sense: Non-financial terms
word: turn to good account
sense: Non-financial terms
word: user account