Definition of Account

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Account

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

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; as, to keep one's account at the bank.

A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.

A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.

A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.

An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.

Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.

To reckon; to compute; to count.

To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; -- with to.

To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.

To recount; to relate.

To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.

To render an account; to answer in judgment; -- with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.

To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.

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Account Quotations

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mohandas Gandhi

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Benjamin Franklin

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
Socrates

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
John F. Kennedy

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
John F. Kennedy

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
Will Rogers

No agency is better than its account executives.
Samuel Goldwyn

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
James Madison

Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Lucille Ball

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.
Phyllis Diller

Account Translations

account in Afrikaans is rekening, rapport
account in Danish is konto
account in Dutch is rekening, conto
account in Finnish is tili
account in French is supputation, demande, compte
account in German is Berechnung, Forderung, Konto/Rechnung, Konto
account in Norwegian is konto
account in Portuguese is cliente
account in Spanish is calculo, postulado

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