account

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the quality of taking advantage

   They turned their writing skills to good account.

2. 2
   noun

   importance or value

   a person of considerable account

3. 3
   noun

   grounds

   don't do it on my account

4. 4
   noun

   a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance

   they send me an accounting every month

5. 5
   noun

   a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services

   I asked to see the executive who handled my account.

6. 6
   verb

   to furnish a justifying analysis or explanation

   I can't account for the missing money.

7. 7
   verb

   to give an account or representation of in words

   You have to account for these losses somehow.

8. 8
   verb

   to keep an account of

   I account for all of the inventory.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Old French a- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin com- Proto-Italic *putos Latin putus? Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin putō Latin computō Old French conter Old French aconter Anglo-Norman acuntebor. Middle English acounte English account From Middle English acounte, from Anglo-Norman acunte (“account”), from Old French aconte, from aco…