account
noun
[ əˈkaʊnt ]
• a report or description of an event or experience.
• "a detailed account of what has been achieved"
Similar:
description,
report,
version,
story,
narration,
narrative,
statement,
news,
explanation,
exposition,
interpretation,
communiqué,
recital,
rendition,
sketch,
delineation,
portrayal,
tale,
chronicle,
history,
record,
archive,
annal,
minute,
transaction,
proceeding,
transcript,
diary,
journal,
weblog,
blog,
vlog,
moblog,
memoir,
review,
register,
log,
relation,
rehearsal,
side,
view,
impression,
sitrep,
• a record or statement of financial expenditure and receipts relating to a particular period or purpose.
• "the barman was doing his accounts"
• an arrangement by which a body holds funds on behalf of a client or supplies goods or services to them on credit.
• "a bank account"
• an arrangement by which a user is given personalized access to a computer, website, or application, typically by entering a username and password.
• "we've reset your password to prevent others from accessing your account"
• importance.
• "money was of no account to her"
Similar:
importance,
import,
significance,
consequence,
moment,
momentousness,
substance,
note,
mark,
prominence,
value,
weightiness,
weight,
concern,
interest,
gravity,
seriousness,
account
verb
• consider or regard in a specified way.
• "her visit could not be accounted a success"
Similar:
consider,
regard as,
reckon,
hold to be,
think,
think of as,
look on as,
view as,
see as,
take for,
judge,
adjudge,
count,
deem,
rate,
gauge,
interpret as,
• prepare or present a record an account of money given or received.
• "in order that he may be able to account accurately, the trustee should not mingle the trust property with other property"
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘counting’, ‘to count’): from Old French acont (noun), aconter (verb), based on conter ‘to count’.
