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      account
      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.
      (uncountable) Profit; advantage.
      (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
      verb
      To provide explanation.
      (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.
      Used in phrasal verbs: account for, account of, account to.
      (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, now rare) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time).
      (obsolete) To count (up), enumerate.
      (obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.).
      Roots
      computo-count · Latin · reckon, count
      Synonyms for account
      invoicenreportnexplanationnledgernregistervtransactionsnscorencalculationnreckoningnchroniclen
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