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account /əˈkaʊnt /noun1A report or description of an event or experience: a detailed account of what has been achieved...- As you rightly stated, the story reported was an accurate account of the events in the Council Chamber that evening.
- Based on eyewitness accounts, the report described how Pashtun villages were attacked after being disarmed by local militia commanders.
- Most of the accounts describe surrealistic events that usually involve cheating death - but not always.
Synonyms description, report, version, story, narration, narrative, statement, news, explanation, exposition, interpretation, communiqué, recital, rendition, sketch, delineation, portrayal, tale; chronicle, history, record, archive, annal, minute, transaction, proceeding, transcript, diary, journal, weblog, blog, vlog, moblog, memoir, review, register, log, relation, rehearsal, side, view, impression Military, informal sitrep 2A record or statement of financial expenditure and receipts relating to a particular period or purpose: the barman was doing his accounts...- Any expenditure included in the accounts where receipts or vouchers were not available was properly made in connection with the carrying on of the company's business.
- Franchisers' financial statements and profit-and-loss accounts, at least in the last two years, should be examined.
- It alleged that ERF's accounts and financial statements were misstated.
Synonyms financial record, book, ledger, journal, balance sheet, financial statement, results 2.1chiefly British A bill for goods or services provided over a period: there’s no money to pay the tradesmen’s accounts this month...- Your subscription billing will end on July 16, 2003 and no accounts will be billed after that date.
- Thus, some consumers pay their electricity bills and telephone accounts in cash.
- The fact that BMI paid its share of legal accounts billed to the projects does not equate to a solicitor-client relationship with Mr. Melia.
Synonyms bill, invoice, statement, list of charges, reckoning, tally; debt, amount due; North American check informal tab archaic score 3An arrangement by which a body holds funds on behalf of a client or supplies goods or services to them on credit: a bank account I began buying things on account...- By the time the error was discovered, B had withdrawn the funds credited to his account by the F Bank.
- Child Trust Fund accounts are available from banks, building societies and other financial organisations.
- The money market earns higher interest rates than their savings bank and credit union accounts.
Synonyms bank account; current account, deposit account, savings account 3.1A client having an account with a supplier: selling bibles to established accounts in the North...- Unlike other firms cited in the story, Merrill does not disclose trading volume or the number of accounts in its retail brokerage business.
- Inspiration to pursue corporate accounts came after a customer made a request for 500 crystal bowls.
- That's especially helpful when I'm taking over an account from another sales rep.
3.2A contract to do work for a client: another agency was awarded the account...- In the nine months before the Unilever account, BT Global Services won £2bn of contracts.
3.3 Stock Market, British A fixed period on a stock exchange, at the end of which payment must be made for stock that has been bought. 4An arrangement by which a user is given personalized access to a computer, website, or application, typically by entering a username and password: we’ve reset your password to prevent others from accessing your account...- Choose or create an account and click "Next."
- This computer doesn't multitask very well, particularly if you have multiple user accounts set up via Windows XP.
- Please send job offers to me via my iChat account.
5 [mass noun] Importance: money was of no account to her...- The fact that he has collected so many baubles in the glory years is of no account to the second row.
- You even have it if the remnant of your unfinished cup of tea has been accidentally thrown away by someone else, who's come upon it and thought it unwanted, of no account.
- The self-evident fact that the numbers applying for asylum correlate precisely with countries where a dog's life would be a step up is of no account.
Synonyms importance, import, significance, consequence, moment, momentousness, substance, note, mark, prominence, value, weightiness, weight, concern, interest, gravity, seriousness 6An interpretation or rendering of a piece of music: a lively account of Offenbach’s score...- Schleiermacher is already famous for his Satie interpretations and he gives well nigh definitive accounts of the music on disc.
- For a conductor not known for his accounts of modern music, Szell did a great deal of it and almost always superbly.
- We have already had excellent accounts of Beethoven and Mozart symphonies and serenades and now it is the turn of some exquisite Haydn and Schubert symphonies.
Synonyms performance, interpretation, rendering, rendition, reading, recital, playing, singing, execution verb1 [with object and complement] Consider or regard in a specified way: her visit could not be accounted a success he accounted himself the unluckiest man alive...- This is accounted a U.N. success.
- Yet if the minister's professional reputation was salvaged, Bellievre's mission to England cannot be accounted a success.
- In 1862 Deck took part in the International Exhibition in London, which he accounted a great success.
Synonyms consider, regard as, reckon, hold to be, think, think of as, look on as, view as, see as, take for, judge, adjudge, count, deem, rate, gauge, interpret as 2 [no object] archaic Give or receive an account for money received: after 1292 he accounted to the Westminster exchequer...- That transaction was proceeding at just the time when the parties fell out and when the respondent was at last beginning to complain that the appellant had not properly accounted to him in respect of previous transactions.
- In addition, they are alleged to have failed to give full details of costs and relevant information to clients at the outset of cases and not to have accounted to Customs and Excise for VAT, as well as other allegations.
- Factory never accounted to us for all the records we'd sold, so we had no idea how much money we were losing.
Phrases by (or from) all accounts call (or bring) someone to account give a good (or bad) account of oneself keep an account of leave something out of account on someone's account on account of on no account on one's own account on this (or that) account settle (or square) accounts with take something into account (or take account of) there's no accounting for tastes (or taste) turn something to (good) account Phrasal verbs Origin Middle English (in the sense 'counting', 'to count'): from Old French acont (noun), aconter (verb), based on conter 'to count'. count from Middle English: The verb to count is from Latin computare ‘to calculate’, the root also of computer, account (Middle English), and recount (Late Middle English) ‘tell’ (which can also be used for both ‘narrate’ and ‘count’). Counters (Middle English) were originally used to help in counting; in the late 17th century the word came to be used for a surface across which goods were exchanged for money. The title of the count or foreign nobleman, corresponding to the English earl, is a completely different word, which was introduced by the Normans and comes from Latin comes ‘companion, overseer, attendant’. County (Middle English) is from the same root, and seems originally to have referred to the lands or territory of a count, or to a meeting held to discuss the business of the county. See also chicken, duke
Rhymes amount, count, fount, miscount, mount, no-account, surmount |