account

The firm failed to file its accounts on time.

(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.

The money was refunded to her account.

The Pueblo bank has advised that the operator opened an account at that bank with currency, and a few days later withdrew the amount.

1910, Journal of the American Bankers Association Vol. XI, No. 1, American Bankers Association, page 3

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.

2012 January 13, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 60:

No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena.

Give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 16:2:

A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.

Don't trouble yourself on my account.

on no account

on every account

on all accounts

[…] 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.

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.

An account of a battle.

A laudible account of the city of London.

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:

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[…]

1920, Carl D. Buck, “Hittite an Indo-European Language?”, in Classical Philology, volume 15, number 2, →DOI, page 185:

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.

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:

A record of events; a relation or narrative.

To stand high in your account

1623, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, act 3, scene 2:

An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.

There is a peculiarity in Homer's manner of apostrophizing Eumaeus, 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, adresses them with respect

1725, Homer, “Book XIV”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, footnote:

Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.

Meronym: username

Since the system outage, I've been unable to login to my account.

In these cases, the agency has to buy through another ad agency that has an account with the media vehicle in question.

2000, Sean Mooney, 5,110 Days in Tokyo and Everything's Hunky-dory, page 66:

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.

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.

2006, Michael Miller, Choosing an Online Payment Service:

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.

2009, Jason Rich, Design and Launch an Online Web Design Business in a Week, page 223:

Of course, to use iCloud on your iPhone, you need to have an iCloud account.

2014, Brad Miser, My iPhone (Covers iOS 8 on iPhone 6/6 Plus, 5S/5C/5, and 4S), page 71:

Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.

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.

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

(archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.

The young man soon turned his woodworking skills to some account.

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.

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):

or a statement of the particulars of such an account

a writ of account:: a writ which the plaintiff brings demanding that the defendant shall render his just account

in a relation requiring an account to be kept

or take into account: to take into consideration

→ Bulgarian: ака́унт (akáunt)

→ Japanese: アカウント (akaunto)

→ Malay: akaun

→ Pohnpeian: akaund

→ Russian: аккаунт (akkaunt)

→ Swahili: akaunti

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a statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc.

обясне́ние

a statement and explanation or vindication

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


account

(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.

The Pagan Hercules, why was he accounted a hero?

1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 8, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):

(transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described).

Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 11:19:

To provide explanation.
(intransitive) To consider that.

To provide explanation.
To consider that.

An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.

(intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.

We must account for the use of our opportunities.

(intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.

Idleness accounts for poverty.

(intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.

After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for.

(intransitive) To establish the location for someone.

To provide explanation.
To establish the location for someone.

Desperately bold at last, the persecuted animals bolted above-ground—the terrier accounted for one, the keeper for another; Rawdon, from flurry and excitement, missed his rat, but on the other hand he half-murdered a ferret.

1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 45, in Vanity Fair:

(intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).

neither the motion of the Moon, whereby moneths are computed; nor of the Sun, whereby years are accounted, consisteth of whole numbers, but admits of fractions, and broken parts, as we have already declared concerning the Moon.

1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

(transitive, now rare) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time).

To count.
(obsolete) To count (up), enumerate.

Long worke it were / Here to account the endlesse progeny / Of all the weeds that bud and blossome there [...].

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

(obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.).

To count.
To recount, relate (a narrative etc.).

en-verb

account (third-person singular simple present accounts, present participle accounting, simple past and past participle accounted)

accounts (present singular third-person)
accounting (participle present)
accounted (participle past)
accounted (past)
account (infinitive)

From Old French acounter, accomptere et al., from a- + conter (“to count”)). Compare count.