Definition of "account" in Englisch

noun

1. (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.

   • The firm failed to file its accounts on time.

2. (banking) A bank account.

   • The money was refunded to her account.
   • The Pueblo bank has advised that the operator opened an account at that bank with currency, and a few days later withdrew the amount.

3. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.

   • No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena.

4. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.

   • Don't trouble yourself on my account.
   • on no account
   • on every account
   • on all accounts

5. A record of events; a relation or narrative.

   • An account of a battle.

6. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.

7. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.

8. Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.

   • Since the system outage, I've been unable to log in to my account.

9. (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.

10. (uncountable) Profit; advantage.

    • The young man soon turned his woodworking skills to some account.

verb

1. To provide explanation.

2. To count.

3. Used in phrasal verbs: account for, account of, account to.