reckon
/ˈɹɛkən/ verb B2- To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
- To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
- To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
- To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause · I reckon he won't try that again.· I’ve just heard from the repairman: it's going to cost £1000. I'd reckoned it’d be £500 at most.
- To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e. to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one's host
- To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
- To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
He/she/it reckons · Past reckoned · Past participle reckoned · -ing form reckoning
Verb forms
- Base form
- reckon
- He/she/it
- reckons
- Past
- reckoned
- Past participle
- reckoned
- -ing form
- reckoning
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
It is so hard to reckon time at such a moment.
“I reckon because Mr.
But I reckon Mrs.
“Well now, I reckoned you’d come to see it in that light, Marilla,” he said.
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