account
/əˈkaʊnt/ verb B1- To estimate, consider (something to be as described). · I'd account it a privilege to serve you.
- To consider that.
- To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc. · An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
- To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for. · We must account for the use of our opportunities.
- To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain. · Idleness accounts for poverty.
- To establish the location for someone. · After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for.
- To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).
- Used in phrasal verbs: account for, account of, account to.
Plural account · He/she/it accounts · Past accounted · Past participle accounted · -ing form accounting
Verb forms
- Base form
- account
- He/she/it
- accounts
- Past
- accounted
- Past participle
- accounted
- -ing form
- accounting
From the library
This accounted to Elizabeth for Mr.
They too, not recognizing him on account of his color, expelled him from living with them.
Then added in a low whisper, “You understand that, on account of your uncle, M.
“This fine account of him,” whispered her aunt as they walked, “is not quite consistent with his behaviour to our poor friend.”
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