account

Plural: accounts

Noun

a record or narrative description of past events
- "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"
a short account of the news
- "the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious"
a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services
- "he asked to see the executive who handled his account"
a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.
- "I expected a brief account"
grounds
- "don't do it on my account"
- "the paper was rejected on account of its length"
importance or value
- "a person of considerable account"
- "he predicted that although it is of small account now it will rapidly increase in importance"
a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance
- "they send me an accounting every month"
the act of informing by verbal report
- "by all accounts they were a happy couple"
an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered
- "send me an account of what I owe"
the quality of taking advantage
- "she turned her writing skills to good account"
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.
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.
A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
Profit; advantage.

Verb

Verb Forms: accounted, accounting, accounts

To provide a satisfactory explanation or justification for.
be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something
- "Passing grades account for half of the grades given in this exam"
keep an account of
to give an account or representation of in words
furnish a justifying analysis or explanation
- "I can't account for the missing money"
To provide explanation.
To present an account of; to answer for, to justify.
To provide explanation.
To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc.
To provide explanation.
To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
To provide explanation.
To consider that.
To provide explanation.
To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.
To provide explanation.
To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.
To provide explanation.
To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.
To provide explanation.
To establish the location for someone.
To provide explanation.
To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).
To count.
To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time).
To count.
To count (up), enumerate.
To count.
To recount, relate (a narrative etc.).
Used in phrasal verbs: account for, account of, account to.

Examples

After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for.
An account of a battle.
An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
Don't trouble yourself on my account.
Idleness accounts for poverty.
No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena.
on all accounts
on every account
on no account
Since the system outage, I've been unable to log in to my account.
The firm failed to file its accounts on time.
The money was refunded to her account.
The young man soon turned his woodworking skills to some account.
We must account for the use of our opportunities.
You’ll have to account for how you knew ’muzjiks’ was a valid word.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English acounte, from Anglo-Norman acunte (“account”), from Old French aconte, from aconter (“to reckon”), from Latin computō (“to sum up”).

Synonyms

account statement, accounting, answer for, bill, business relationship, calculate, chronicle, describe, explanation, history, invoice, news report, report, score, story, write up, account, consider, count, deem, description, dub, esteem, find, hold, interpret, judge, look upon, membership, narration, narrative, recital, regard as, registration, relation, see, think of, view as

Scrabble Score: 11

account: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
account: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
account: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 15

account: valid Words With Friends Word