Definition of account

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Account (n.) A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.

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Entry :: Entry (n.) The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods. See Enter, v. t., 8, and Entrance, n., 5..
Confuse :: Confuse (v. t.) To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision..
Bank :: Bank (v. i.) To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.
Summer :: Summer (v.) One who sums; one who casts up an account.
Counterfoil :: Counterfoil (n.) That part of a tally, formerly in the exchequer, which was kept by an officer in that court, the other, called the stock, being delivered to the person who had lent the king money on the account; -- called also counterstock..
Commission :: Commission (n.) The acting under authority of, or on account of, another..
Tidings :: Tidings (n.) Account of what has taken place, and was not before known; news..
Tell :: Tell (v. i.) To give an account; to make report.
Impeachment :: Impeachment (n.) A calling to account; arraignment; especially, of a public officer for maladministration..
Name :: Name (n.) A descriptive or qualifying appellation given to a person or thing, on account of a character or acts..
Account :: 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..
Cosmogony :: Cosmogony (n.) The creation of the world or universe; a theory or account of such creation; as, the poetical cosmogony of Hesoid; the cosmogonies of Thales, Anaxagoras, and Plato..
Nice :: Nice (superl.) Done or made with careful labor; suited to excite admiration on account of exactness; evidencing great skill; exact; fine; finished; as, nice proportions, nice workmanship, a nice application; exactly or fastidiously discriminated; requiring close discrimination; as, a nice point of law, a nice distinction in philosophy..
Dynamist :: Dynamist (n.) One who accounts for material phenomena by a theory of dynamics.
Accountant :: Accountant (a.) Accountable.
Centime :: Centime (n.) The hundredth part of a franc; a small French copper coin and money of account.
Stare :: Stare (v. i.) To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, color, or brilliancy; as, staring windows or colors..
Equalize :: Equalize (v. t.) To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes..
Prest :: Prest (n.) A duty in money formerly paid by the sheriff on his account in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands..
Registry :: Registry (n.) A record; an account; a register.
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