account
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.
Example
“The firm failed to file its accounts on time.”
Other meanings
A bank account.
“The money was refunded to her account.”
A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
Synonyms
- score
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "computō" (to sum up).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “account” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.