Definition of account

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Account (v. i.) To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received..

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Filefish :: Filefish (n.) Any plectognath fish of the genera Monacanthus, Alutera, balistes, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulated skin, which is sometimes used in place of sandpaper..
Account :: Account (n.) A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.
Relation :: Relation (n.) The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events..
Score :: Score (n.) Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
Surchargement :: Surcharge (n.) The showing an omission, as in an account, for which credit ought to have been given..
Balance :: Balance (n.) To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account equal; -- said of an item; as, this payment, or credit, balances the account..
Unbalanced :: Unbalanced (a.) Not adjusted; not settled; not brought to an equality of debt and credit; as, an unbalanced account; unbalanced books..
Pipe :: Pipe (n.) A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put together like a pipe..
Shilling :: Shilling (n.) A silver coin, and money of account, of Great Britain and its dependencies, equal to twelve pence, or the twentieth part of a pound, equivalent to about twenty-four cents of the United States currency..
Foot :: Foot (v. t.) To sum up, as the numbers in a column; -- sometimes with up; as, to foot (or foot up) an account..
Pipeclay :: Pipeclay (v. t.) To clear off; as, to pipeclay accounts..
Booker :: Booker (n.) One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper..
Un- :: Un- (adv.) Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; o
Gem :: Gem (n.) Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, as a small picture, a verse of poetry, a witty or wise saying..
Uncomfortable :: Uncomfortable (a.) Feeling discomfort; uneasy; as, to be uncomfortable on account of one's position..
Subject :: Subject (v. t.) To submit; to make accountable.
Defaulter :: Defaulter (n.) One who fails to perform a duty; a delinquent; particularly, one who fails to account for public money intrusted to his care; a peculator; a defalcator..
Anna :: Anna (n.) An East Indian money of account, the sixteenth of a rupee, or about 2/ cents..
Imputation :: Imputation () A setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another; as, the imputation of the sin of Adam, or the righteousness of Christ..
Repute :: Repute (v. t.) To hold in thought; to account; to estimate; to hold; to think; to reckon.
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