accounting
/əˈkaʊn.tɪŋ/ noun B2- The development and use of a system for recording and analyzing the financial transactions and financial status of an individual or a business.
- A relaying of events; justification of actions. · He was required to give a thorough accounting of his time.
- An equitable remedy requiring wrongfully obtained profits to be distributed to those who deserve them.
Plural accountings
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No accounting for tastes!
“I guess you’re feeling pretty tired and hungry,” Matthew ventured to say at last, accounting for her long visitation of dumbness with the only reason he could think of.
Lady Catherine observed, after dinner, that Miss Bennet seemed out of spirits; and immediately accounting for it herself, by supposing that she did not like to go home again so soon, she added,--
Nothing had ever suggested it before, but they now felt that there was no other way of accounting for such attentions from such a quarter than by supposing a partiality for their niece.
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