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Definition of account

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Account (n.) 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..

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Score :: Score (n.) A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account..

Ditto :: Ditto (n.) The aforesaid thing; the same (as before). Often contracted to do., or to two turned commas (), or small marks. Used in bills, books of account, tables of names, etc., to save repetition..

Report :: Report (v. t.) To write an account of for publication, as in a newspaper; as, to report a public celebration or a horse race..

Reckoning :: Reckoning (n.) An account of tim.

Responsibility :: Responsibility (n.) That for which anyone is responsible or accountable; as, the resonsibilities of power..

Embolism :: Embolism (n.) Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year..

Enumeration :: Enumeration (n.) A detailed account, in which each thing is specially noticed..

Accounting :: Accounting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accoun.

Balance :: Balance (n.) To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them..

Accountant :: Accountant (n.) One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts..

Score :: Score (v. t.) Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally..

Over :: Over (adv.) From beginning to end; throughout the course, extent, or expanse of anything; as, to look over accounts, or a stock of goods; a dress covered over with jewels..

Steward :: Steward (n.) In some colleges, an officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students..

Reckoning :: Reckoning (n.) The charge or account made by a host at an inn.

Debit :: Debit (n.) A debt; an entry on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; -- mostly used adjectively; as, the debit side of an account..

Necrologist :: Necrologist (n.) One who gives an account of deaths.

Uniformitarian :: Uniformitarian (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the view or doctrine that existing causes, acting in the same manner and with essentially the same intensity as at the present time, are sufficient to account for all geological changes..

Anna :: Anna (n.) An East Indian money of account, the sixteenth of a rupee, or about 2/ cents..

Practical :: Practical (a.) Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry..

Logothete :: Logothete () An accountant; under Constantine, an officer of the empire; a receiver of revenue; an administrator of a department..