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Noun

1. A report or description of an event or experience.

a detailed account of what has been achieved

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2. An interpretation or rendering of a piece of music.

a lively account of Offenbach's score

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3. A record or statement of financial expenditure and receipts relating to a particular period or purpose.

Details of the transfer are included in the notes to the 2004 financial accounts.

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4. (accounts) The department of a company that deals with financial accounts.

the people from Accounts

5. A bill for goods or services provided over a period.

There was loyalty to suppliers and accounts were paid promptly.

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6. 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

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7. A client having an account with a supplier.

selling bibles to established accounts in the North

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8. A contract to do work for a client.

another agency was awarded the account

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9. A fixed period on a stock exchange, at the end of which payment must be made for stock that has been bought.
10. An arrangement by which a user is given personalized access to a computer, website, or application, typically by entering a username and password.

Please send job offers to me via my iChat account.

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11. Importance.

It is of no account: for the royals, the crisis has passed.

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Verb

1. Consider or regard in a specified way.

her visit could not be accounted a success

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2. Prepare or present a record an account of money given or received.

Factory never accounted to us for all the records we'd sold, so we had no idea how much money we were losing.

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Account for

1. (account for something) Give a satisfactory record of something, typically money, that one is responsible for.

I had to account for every penny I spent

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2. Provide or serve as a satisfactory explanation or reason for.

he was brought before the Board to account for his behaviour

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3. (account for someone or something) Know the fate or whereabouts of someone or something, especially after an accident.

everyone was accounted for after the floods

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4. (account for someone or something) Succeed in killing, destroying, or defeating.

Laois accounted for Kildare and Carlow while Carlow defeated Kildare.

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5. (account for something) Supply or make up a specified amount or proportion.

Ten trades in Abbey shares were recorded, accounting for almost €100, 000.

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Origin

1. Middle English (in the sense ‘counting’, ‘to count’): from Old French acont (noun), aconter (verb), based on conter ‘to count’.

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