Account

Noun

 * 1)  A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
 * 2) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review
 * 3) A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event;
 * 4) A reason, grounds, consideration, motive.
 * 5) A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description
 * 6) A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgement thereon.
 * 7) An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
 * 8) Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.
 * 9) An authorization to use a service.

Verb

 * 1)  To reckon; to compute; to count.
 * 2)  To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign. Edward Hyde Clarendon
 * 3)  To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.
 * 4)  To render or receive an account or relation of particulars
 * 5)  To render an account; to answer in judgement.
 * 6)  To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain
 * 7)  To get revenge on.

Adjectives for Account
elaborate; detailed; full ; minute; lengthy; analytical; concise; brief; condensed; picturesque; magnificent; beautiful; hackneyed; inspired; felicitous;  scanty; fragmentary; sketchy; rambling; inadequate; exact; accurate; veracious; precise;  factual; personal; intimate; unaffected; sincere; straightforward; biased; impartial; prejudiced; sober; childish; intelligible; capable; continuous; straight-running; chimerical; absurd; amusing; humorous; whisical;  facetious;  thrilling;  breath-taking; hair-raising; blood-curdling;  lurid; ambiguous; conflicting; contradictory; amazing; disquieting; alarming; ribald; sordid; sprawling; incoherent;  statistical; romantic; syllogistic; proselytizing; ironical; formative; lusty; rigorous; indignant; delirious;  articulate; uninhibited; charming; fascinating; delightful; absorbing; striking; graphic; vivid; animated; leisurely; belated; garrulous; circumstantial; exhaustive; specific; inferential; synthetic; punctilious; glowing; exaggerated; superficial; singular; unrhetorical; contemporary; profuse; spired; gloomy; harrowing; technical; wire-drawn; conjectural; malicious; farcical; biographical; voluble; prosaic; racy; awful.

Verbs for Account
balance -; boost -; fabricate -; juggle -s; revel in -s; render -; settle -; tally up -; treble the -; attach to your -; call to -; give - of; open -; place to -; take - of; take into -; enliven -; favor with -; furnish -; launch upon -; peruse -; ramble through -; deny -; sum up -; supplement -; thrill to -; - amuses; - bores; - depicts; - differs; - entertains; - maneuvers; - wearies.

Synonyms for Account

 * narrative, narration, relation, recital, description, explanation
 * accounting, explanation
 * defense, excuse, explanation
 * membership, registration, username
 * description, detail, report, statement, charge, bill, reckoning.
 * membership, registration, username
 * description, detail, report, statement, charge, bill, reckoning.
 * membership, registration, username
 * description, detail, report, statement, charge, bill, reckoning.

Derived terms

 * account balance
 * account book
 * account code
 * account executive
 * account number
 * account payable
 * account receivable
 * account stated
 * active account
 * bank account
 * book account
 * capital account
 * cash account
 * cast accounts
 * charge account
 * checking account
 * concentration account
 * control account
 * credit account
 * current account
 * custodial account
 * deferred account
 * deposit account


 * discretionary account
 * dormant account
 * drawing account
 * escrow account
 * expense account
 * final account
 * frozen account
 * general account
 * giro account
 * house account
 * insured account
 * joint account
 * managed account
 * margin account
 * merchant account
 * mixed account
 * money of account
 * nostro account
 * NOW account
 * numbered account
 * omnibus account
 * open account
 * option account


 * overdraft checking account
 * pension account
 * profit and loss account
 * reserved account
 * restricted account
 * retirement account
 * savings account
 * separate account
 * share premium account
 * suspense account
 * sweep account
 * trading account
 * transaction account
 * trust account
 * trustee account
 * undermargined account
 * undivided account
 * valuation account
 * vostro account
 * western account
 * wrap account
 * zero-balance account


 * account for


 * account of


 * account current: a running or continued account between two or more parties, or a statement of the particulars of such an account
 * call to account
 * cast up one's accounts
 * in account with: in a relation requiring an account to be kept
 * no-account
 * on account of: for the sake of; by reason of; because of
 * on no account
 * on one's own account: for one's own interest or behalf
 * make account: (Obsolete): to have an opinion or expectation; to reckon


 * make account of: to hold in estimation; to esteem; as, he makes small account of beauty
 * shell account
 * short account
 * take account of, or take into account: to take into consideration; to notice
 * a writ of account: (Law): a writ which the plaintiff brings demanding that the defendant shall render his just account, or show good cause to the contrary; -- called also an action of account - Cowell
 * take into account
 * theoretical account

Related terms

 * accountable
 * accountant

Thesaurus
a reckoning of; account current; account for; account of; account rendered; account stated; accounting; accounts; acquaintance; acta; adjudge; adjudicate; advantage; aggregate; allow; allow for; allowance; amount; anecdotage; anecdote; annals; announcement; annual; answer for; approbation; approval; assessment; balance; bank account; bank balance; be judicious; benefit; bill; bill of account; bill of fare; bill of lading; blackmail; blood money; blue book; body count; books; box score; brief; briefing; bulletin; calculation; capitulation; carte; cash account; cast; catalog; census; census report; charge account; check; check of; checking account; chronicle; communication; communique; computation; consequence; consider; consideration; control account; conversion factor; correspondence; count; count of; credit; credit account; data; datum; deem; description; difference; directory; dispatch; documentation; dun; election returns; emolument; enlightenment; enumeration; epic; epos; esteem; estimation; evidence; exercise judgment; expense account; explain; explanation; express an opinion; face; face value; facts; factual information; familiarization; favor; fee; footing; form an opinion; gen; general information; guidebook; handout; hard information; head count; history; hold; honor; hush money; importance; incidental information; income account; info; information; initiation fee; instruction; intelligence; interest; inventory; invoice; itemized bill; judge; justify; knowledge; ledger; letters; light; list; manifest; market value; memorial; mention; menu; merit; message; mileage; minutes; narration; narrative; net worth; nose count; note; notice; notification; number; par value; pennyworth; pine; pipe roll; presentation; presume; proceedings; product; profit; promotional material; proof; provision account; publication; publicity; quantity; rate; recapitulation; recital; reckoning; record; recording; recount; recounting; regard; register; registry; rehearsal; relation; release; relic; remains; repertory; report; respect; retainer; retaining fee; returns; revenue account; roll; rolls; roster; rota; running account; saga; sake; sales account; savings account; score; scot; scroll; selling account; sidelight; significance; standing; statement; stipend; stock account; story; sum; summary; summation; summing; summing up; suppose; suspense account; tab; table; tabs of; take into consideration; take note of; tale; tally; tally of; the bottom line; the dope; the goods; the know; the record; the scoop; the story; the whole story; think of; token; total; trace; track of; transactions; transmission; tribute; use; valuation account; value; value received; vestige; white book; white paper; whole; word; worth; x number; yarn; yearbook