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on one's own account1For one’s own purposes; for oneself: he began trading on his own account...- Very little real mining occurred at any of the two mines during the next twenty-five years, although some individual prospectors and miners did have a try at times on their own account.
- How bad would things have to get before the lure of easy money over-rode somebody's scruples and induced them to run things on their own account instead of their company's?
- It is understood that where there are new business, there are self-employed and empowered economic agents partaking in the mainstream on their own account.
1.1Alone; unaided: he’ll be investigating on his own account...- Small-scale breeders are becoming less frightened of the system and are beginning to feel that they may be able to tackle it on their own account.
- Every decision that I have reached in relation to this particular Inquiry has been on my own account, without any consultation with any members of that group.
- Besides which, no doubt, the King is popular on his own account; and has been exercising the gift he has for saying happy things, or things which exhibit his own character in a happy light.
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