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    ac·count
    [əˈkount]
    noun
    accounts (plural noun)
    1. a report or description of an event or experience:
      "a detailed account of what has been achieved"
      • an interpretation or rendering of a piece of music:
        "a lively account of Offenbach's score"
    2. a record or statement of financial expenditure and receipts relating to a particular period or purpose:
      "the ledger contains all the income and expense accounts" · "he submitted a quarterly account"
      • (accounts)
        the department of a company that deals with financial accounts:
        "the people from Accounts"
    3. an arrangement by which a body holds funds on behalf of a client or supplies goods or services to the client on credit:
      "a bank account" · "I began buying things on account" · "charge it to my account" · "I wanted to get some money from the ATM and check my account"
      • a client having an account with a supplier:
        "selling bibles to established accounts in the North"
      • a contract to do work periodically for a client:
        "another agency was awarded the account"
    4. 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"
    5. importance:
      "money was of no account to her"
    verb
    accounts (third person present)
    1. consider or regard in a specified way:
      "her visit could not be accounted a success" · "he accounted himself the unluckiest man alive"
    Origin
    Middle English (in the sense ‘counting’, ‘to count’): from Old French acont (noun), aconter (verb), based on conter ‘to count’.
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    noun
    1. a report or description of an event or experience:
      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
    2. a record or statement of financial expenditure and receipts relating to a particular period or purpose:
      book
      ledger
      journal
      balance sheet
      results
      financial record
      financial statement
      • an arrangement by which a body holds funds on behalf of a client or supplies goods or services to the client on credit:
        bank account
        savings account
        current account
        deposit account
      • importance:
        importance
        import
        significance
        consequence
        moment
        momentousness
        substance
        note
        mark
        prominence
        value
        weightiness
        weight
        concern
        interest
        gravity
        seriousness
      verb
      1. consider or regard in a specified way:
        consider
        reckon
        think
        judge
        adjudge
        count
        deem
        rate
        gauge
        regard as
        hold to be
        think of as
        look on as
        view as
        see as
        take for
        interpret as
       
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