"go on the account" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes on the account",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going on the account",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went on the account",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone on the account",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> on the account"
      },
      "expansion": "go on the account (third-person singular simple present goes on the account, present participle going on the account, simple past went on the account, past participle gone on the account)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Nautical",
          "orig": "en:Nautical",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1822, Walter Scott, The Pirate",
          "text": "And as for serving under Goffe, I hope it is no new thing for gentlemen of fortune who are going on the account, to change a Captain now and then?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1836, Ezra Strong, “Captain Thomas Howard”, in The Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates",
          "text": "At this island he ran away from his ship, and associating himself with some desperate fellows, they stole a canoe, and went away to the Grand Camanas, to join some others of their own stamp, who lurked thereabouts, with design to go on the account, the term for pirating.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Hans Turley, Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash, NYU Press, page 118",
          "text": "However, during peacetime, privateers and navy men were left without employment, so they often went on the account.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become a pirate; to join a pirating or filibustering expedition."
      ],
      "id": "en-go_on_the_account-en-verb-N~QPPj03",
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "pirate",
          "pirate"
        ],
        [
          "filibuster",
          "filibuster"
        ],
        [
          "expedition",
          "expedition"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) To become a pirate; to join a pirating or filibustering expedition."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "pirate"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "go on the account"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes on the account",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going on the account",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went on the account",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone on the account",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> on the account"
      },
      "expansion": "go on the account (third-person singular simple present goes on the account, present participle going on the account, simple past went on the account, past participle gone on the account)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "pirate"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "en:Nautical"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1822, Walter Scott, The Pirate",
          "text": "And as for serving under Goffe, I hope it is no new thing for gentlemen of fortune who are going on the account, to change a Captain now and then?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1836, Ezra Strong, “Captain Thomas Howard”, in The Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates",
          "text": "At this island he ran away from his ship, and associating himself with some desperate fellows, they stole a canoe, and went away to the Grand Camanas, to join some others of their own stamp, who lurked thereabouts, with design to go on the account, the term for pirating.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Hans Turley, Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash, NYU Press, page 118",
          "text": "However, during peacetime, privateers and navy men were left without employment, so they often went on the account.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become a pirate; to join a pirating or filibustering expedition."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "pirate",
          "pirate"
        ],
        [
          "filibuster",
          "filibuster"
        ],
        [
          "expedition",
          "expedition"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) To become a pirate; to join a pirating or filibustering expedition."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "go on the account"
}