WIKTIONARY

accounting

Verb

Noun

∙ The development and use of a system for recording and analyzing the financial transactions and financial status of a business or other organization. accounting
∙ A relaying of events; justification of actions.

Adjective

account

Noun

∙ 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 accounting
∙ A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal. banking
∙ A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
∙ A reason, grounds, consideration, motive.
∙ A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit. business
∙ A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description.
∙ A statement explaining one's conduct.
∙ An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
∙ Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
∙ An authorization to use a service.
∙ A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning. archaic
∙ Profit; advantage.

Verb

∙ to provide explanation
- ∙ To present an account of; to answer for, to justify. [14th-17th c.] obsolete, transitive
- ∙ To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc. [from 14th c.] intransitive, now rare
- ∙ To estimate, consider (something to be as described). [from 14th c.] transitive
- ∙ To consider that. [from 14th c.] intransitive
- ∙ To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc. [from 15th c.] intransitive
- ∙ To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for. [from 16th c.] intransitive
- ∙ To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain. [from 16th c.] intransitive
- ∙ To establish the location for someone. [from 19th c.] intransitive
- ∙ To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for). [from 19th c.] intransitive
∙ to count
- ∙ To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time). [from 14th c.] transitive, now rare
- ∙ To count (up), enumerate. [14th-17th c.] obsolete
- ∙ To recount, relate (a narrative etc.). [14th-16th c.] obsolete

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