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accounting
Verb
  • present participle of account
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
  • Of or relating to accounting.
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