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account

English

🔊 the quality of taking advantage
“she turned her writing skills to good account”
🔊 importance or value
“a person of considerable account”
🔊 a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance
“they send me an accounting every month”
🔊 a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services
“he asked to see the executive who handled his account”
🔊 a record or narrative description of past events
“a history of France”
🔊 an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered
“he paid his bill and left”
🔊 a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.
“the explanation was very simple”
🔊 the act of informing by verbal report
“he heard reports that they were causing trouble”
🔊 grounds
“don't do it on my account”
🔊 a short account of the news
“the report of his speech”
🔊 furnish a justifying analysis or explanation
“I can't account for the missing money”
🔊 keep an account of
🔊 be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something
“Passing grades account for half of the grades given in this exam”
🔊 to give an account or representation of in words
“Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental”