Account

Definition: Account

Account

Noun

1. A formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services; "he asked to see the executive who handled his account".

2. The act of informing by verbal report; "he heard reports that they were causing trouble"; "by all accounts they were a happy couple".

3. A record or narrative description of past events: "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead".

4. A short account of the news; "the report of his speech"; "the story was on the 11 o'clock news"; "the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious".

5. A statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance; "they send me an accounting every month".

6. A statement that explains; "he launched into a detailed explanation"; "he demanded that I give an account for my failure".

7. A statement of money owed for goods or services; "he paid his bill and left"; "send me an account of what I owe".

8. Grounds; "don't do it on my account"; "the paper was rejected on account of its length"; "he tried to blame the victim but his success on that score was doubtful".

9. Importance or value; "a person of considerable account"; "he predicted that although it is of small account now it will rapidly increase in importance".

10. : the quality of taking advantage; "she turned her writing skills to good account".

Verb

1. Be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something; "Passing grades account for half of the grades given in this exam".

2. Keep an account of.

3. To give an account or representation of in words: "Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental.".

4. Furnish a justifying analysis or explanation; "I can't account for the missing money".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "account" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Business

Computing

Finance

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Account

Accounts

Noun: accounts, accompts; commercial arithmetic, monetary arithmetic; statistics; (numeration); money matters, finance, budget, bill, score, reckoning, account.

Approbation

Noun: approbation; approval, approvement; sanction, advocacy; nod of approbation; esteem, estimation, good opinion, golden opinions, admiration; love; appreciation, regard, account, popularity, gr/kudos/gr, credit; repute; best seller.

Credit

Noun: credit, trust, tick, score, tally, account.

Description

Noun: description, account, statement, report; expose; (disclosure) specification, particulars; state of facts, summary of facts; brief; (abstract); return; (record); catalogue raisonne; (list); guidebook; (information).

Information

Case, estimate, specification, report, advice, monition; news; return; (record); account; (description); statement; (affirmation).

Judgment

Form an estimate, estimate, appreciate, value, count, assess, rate, rank, account; regard, consider, think of; look upon; (believe); review; size up.

Numeration

Dead reckoning, muster, poll, census, capitation, roll call, recapitulation; account; (list).

Crosswords: Account

You got the account number, you know how to access it (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe)

We called him Mother Superior on account of the length of his habit (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

Then have a kiss on account. (Sleepy Hollow; writing credit: Kevin Yagher)

I needed him to treat me decently and get a job, and he needed to empty my bank account. (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and Billy Crystal)

No charge account. I work strictly cash (Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree; writing credit: A.A. Milne; Ralph Wright)

She likes access to your bank account (Tricky, tricky; performing artist: Lou Bega)

Got a bank account bigger than the law should allow (Incomplete; performing artist: Sisqo)

Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Suspense Account (1964)

Charge Account (1960)

Account Rendered (1957)

On Your Account (1953)

Account Rendered (1932)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Brain Surgery for Suits: 56 Things Every Account Person Should Know (reference)

• Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission (reference)

• Key Account Management and Planning: The Comprehensive Handbook for Managing Your Company's Most Important Strategic Asset (reference)

• Successful Large Account Management (reference)

• Touching the Void: The Harrowing First Person Account Of One Man's Miraculous Survival (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• American Guild Of Patient Account Management Membership (reference)

• Government Account Standards Board Package Service (reference)

• Individual Retirement Account Answer Book (reference)

• Journal Of Selling & Major Account Management (reference)

• Major Account News (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Josef Mengele: The Final Account (reference)

• Millions in My Account (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• America The Beautiful: An Account of its Disappearance (reference)

• Closed On Account Of Rabies: Poems And Tales Of Edgar Allen Poe (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• TP T22 NB P3/900 3YR WTY-FOR ACCOUNT #1160688 ONLY (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Julis greenovii Bennett. In: "The Shore Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands, with a General Account of the Fish Fauna", by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. XXIII, for 1903. Part I. P. 574, PlateC XXX. Credit: Fisheries.

Hemicoris ballieui (Vaillant & Sauvage). In: "The Shore Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands, with a General Account of the Fish Fauna", by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. XXIII, for 1903. Part I. P. 574, Plate XXXII. Credit: Fisheries.

Sectator azureus Jordan & Evermann. Type. In: "The Shore Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands, with a General Account of the Fish Fauna", by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. XXIII, for 1903. Part I. P. 574, Plate XX. Credit: Fisheries.

Pseudupeneus chrysonemus Jordan & Evermann. Type. In: "The Shore Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands, with a General Account of the Fish Fauna", by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. XXIII, for 1903. Part I. P. 574, Plate XXI. Credit: Fisheries.

Lepidaplois bilunulatus (Lacepede). A'awa. In: "The Shore Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands, with a General Account of the Fish Fauna", by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. XXIII, for 1903. Part I. P. 574, Plate XXIV. Credit: Fisheries.

Verriculus sanguineus Jordan & Evermann. Type. In: "The Shore Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands, with a General Account of the Fish Fauna", by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. XXIII, for 1903. Part I. P. 574, Plate XXV. Credit: Fisheries.

Stethojulis albovittata (Kolreuter). In: "The Shore Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands, with a General Account of the Fish Fauna", by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. XXIII, for 1903. Part I. P. 574, Plate XXVI. Credit: Fisheries.

Julis pulcherrima (Gunther). Akilolo. In: "The Shore Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands, with a General Account of the Fish Fauna", by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. XXIII, for 1903. Part I. P. 574, Plate XXVII. Credit: Fisheries.

Julis flavovittata Bennett. In: "The Shore Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands, with a General Account of the Fish Fauna", by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. XXIII, for 1903. Part I. P. 574, Plate XXVIII. Credit: Fisheries.

Julis eydouxi Cuvier & Valenciennes. In: "The Shore Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands, with a General Account of the Fish Fauna", by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. XXIII, for 1903. Part I. P. 574, Plate XXIX. Credit: Fisheries.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

To the first there is this to answer, That it is not at all to be wondered, that history gives us but a very little account of men, that lived together in the state of nature. (Second Treatise of Government)

Clause 7: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time. (reference)

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude-- Section 2. (reference)

The practical measures proposed in them -- -such as the abolition of the distinction between town and country, of the family, of the carrying on of industries for the account of private individuals, and of the wage system, the proclamation of social harmony, the conversion of the functions of the State into a mere superintendence of production, all these proposals, point solely to the disappearance of class antagonisms which were, at that time, only just cropping up, and which, in these publications, are recognised in their earliest, indistinct and undefined forms only. (reference)

The League of Nations shall decide on the sovereignty under which the territory is to be placed, taking into account the wishes of the inhabitants as expressed by the voting. (reference)

No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Harriet could not very soon give an intelligible account.

You will take account of the rate of work, the lightness of the scarves, and their warmth

Her account was stated on the wall in the same manner

At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behavior

On account of the affair

It only made you feel a little sickish on account of the smell of the wine

I got seven years, account of he had a knife in me.

I said they were fellows of desperate fortunes, forced to fly from the places of their birth, on account of their poverty or their crimes

Nothing was given me of which I have not rendered some account.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Age is not taken into account. (references)

Drug effects account for 25 percent of cases of impotence. (references)

Preterm infants account for the majority of all neonatal deaths. (references)

Business

Imports from Japan account for 50% of the market. (references)

Polish programs account for 45% of all CAD/CAM software. (references)

Hotels and motels account for nine percent of total demand. (references)

Children

Greece

The law states that persons with disabilities should account for 3 percent of employees in private enterprises. (references)

South Africa

The Government attempts to ensure that all government-funded projects take account of the needs of citizens with disabilities. (references)

Bulgaria

The law requires improved structural access for the disabled, and public works have taken the needs of persons with disabilities into account, for example, Sofia's new subway system was designed with wheelchair access to stations. (references)

Civil Liberties

Senegal

A personal account with unlimited access time cost approximately $18 (10,000 CFA francs) per month. (references)

Guinea

Refugees account for half or more of the populations of the forest region cities of N'Zerekore, Kissidougou, and Macenta. (references)

Papua New Guinea

Associations that wish to open a bank account and conduct financial transactions are required to register for this purpose. (references)

Economic History

Croatia

Account Number: 30102-630-16. (references)

Gambia, The

Services account for 19% of GDP. (references)

Djibouti

Opening a local bank account is compulsory. (references)

Human Rights

Jamaica

Neither account could be confirmed independently. (references)

China

Five provincial-level Procurators were summoned to Beijing to account for wrongdoing. (references)

Togo

His passport was presented as evidence of this discrepancy, but was never taken into account by the judge. (references)

Indigenous People

Chile

The Mapuches, from the south, account for approximately 930,000 of this total. (references)

Thailand

Members of hilltribes without proper documentation, who account for approximately half the estimated 700,000 to 880,000 such persons, still face restrictions on their movement, may not own land, and are not protected by labor laws, including minimum wage requirements. (references)

Venezuela

The Constitution created three seats in the National Assembly for indigenous people and also provides for "the protection of indigenous communities and their progressive incorporation into the life of the nation." Nonetheless local political authorities seldom take account of the interests of indigenous people when making decisions affecting their lands, cultures, and traditions, or the allocation of natural resources. (references)

Minorities

Finland

Immigrants account for 1.86 percent of the population. (references)

Ecuador

It estimates that Afro-Ecuadorians account for more than 1 million persons, or about 9 percent of the total population. (references)

Iceland

However, persons of foreign origin constituted 4 or 5 percent of the population when account was taken of individuals who were born in foreign countries but have since become citizens. (references)

Political Economy

ALGERIA

The dinar is convertible for all current account transactions. (references)

COLOMBIA

By the mid-1990's, fiscal and current account deficits were increasing. (references)

Iran

Oil exports account for nearly 80 percent of foreign exchange earnings. (references)

Political Rights

Belgium

National decisions often take into account the specific needs of each regional and linguistic group. (references)

Indonesia

In July the MPR met to convene an "Extraordinary Session" to require then-President Wahid to account for his performance in office. (references)

Japan

Women account for 19.8 percent of elected members of prefectural assemblies and 6.4 percent of elected members of local assemblies. (references)

Trade

Mexico

Many U.S. companies sell to Mexico via open account. (references)

Switzerland

Some important Swiss importers maintain their own account. (references)

Vietnam

The four SOCBs account for 3/4 of the credit market in Vietnam. (references)

Travel

Italy

Italian holidays must be taken into account when planning a business itinerary. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

The scam victim is typically asked to pay a small fee to open a bank account, and this is followed by requests for escalating amounts to cover legal expenses and fees. (references)

Women

Kyrgyz Republic

Women with children under the age of 16 account for 67 percent of unemployed women. (references)

Worker Rights

Cambodia

Children under the age of 15 account for more than half the population. (references)

Turkmenistan

In other sectors, it allows for some leeway at the enterprise level, taking into account local factors. (references)

Tunisia

In certain industries, such as textiles, hotels, and construction, temporary workers account for a large majority of the work force. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "account": a ledger or an account ♦ A writ of account ♦ abstract of account ♦ accommodation account ♦ account balance ♦ Account book ♦ account books ♦ Account Books [Publication Type] ♦ account credit ♦ Account current ♦ account department ♦ account executive ♦ account for ♦ account for smth. ♦ account holder ♦ account holder identifier ♦ account holder number ♦ account number ♦ account number extended ♦ account oneself ♦ account oneself happy ♦ account payable ♦ account receivable ♦ account representative ♦ account statement ♦ action of account ♦ active account ♦ ad on no account ♦ allowance account ♦ allowance for bad debts account ♦ amortization account ♦ articulate account of the events ♦ audited account ♦ auxiliary account ♦ balance account ♦ balance an account ♦ balance carried forward to new account ♦ balance of the account ♦ balance on current account ♦ balance sheet account ♦ bank account ♦ banking account ♦ bargain for account ♦ be of account ♦ beggarly account of empty boxes ♦ blocked account ♦ Book account ♦ book of account ♦ books of account ♦ bring a good account of oneself ♦ bring into account ♦ bring smb. to account ♦ bring to account ♦ brokerage account ♦ budget account ♦ business account ♦ buy on account ♦ by one's own account ♦ call smb. to account ♦ call to account ♦ capital account ♦ cash account ♦ changes in an account ♦ charge account ♦ charge account credit ♦ charge an account ♦ charge to smb.'s account ♦ charging an account ♦ charging to account ♦ chartered account ♦ check account ♦ checking account ♦ checking account with interest ♦ cheque account ♦ clearance account ♦ close a bank account ♦ close an account ♦ closed account ♦ closing account ♦ closing of account ♦ closing of an account ♦ consolidated account ♦ contra account ♦ control account ♦ cook an account ♦ cooked account ♦ credit account ♦ credit an account ♦ credit smth. to an account ♦ credit the account ♦ credit to an account ♦ currency account ♦ current account ♦ current account balance ♦ custodial account ♦ debit account ♦ debit smb.'s account ♦ debit to an account ♦ delinquent account ♦ depletion account ♦ deposit account. Additional references.

Beginning with "account": account-book, account-by-account, account-has, account-holder, account-holders, account-holding, account-keeping, account-trading.

Ending with "account": current-account, expense-account, running-account.

Containing "account": expense-account-friendly.

Afrikaans

rekening (bill, calculation, invoice), rapport (record, report, scholary, scholary report). (various references)

Albanian

arsye (argument, cause, consideration, justice, justification, matter, motivation, motive, nous, occasion, place, plea, reason, sense, spring, why). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تقرير (advisory, confirmation, decision, determination, record, report, statement), ‏ربح (bonus, draw, earning, gain, in pocket, increase, increment, jackpot, lucre, make, pay, payoff, pelf, percentage, pocket, profit, prosperity, revenue, win), ‏رصيد (chip, funds, stash, stock), ‏أهمية (consequence, consideration, import, importance, magnitude, moment, pith, prominence, significance, standing, stress, value, weight, weightiness, worth), ‏إعتبر (adjudge, assume, consider, count, deem, externalize, figure, hold the view, look at, make, number, ponder, rate, reckon, see, set, treat), ‏إعتبار (consideration, esteem, estimation, horn, prestige, regard, respect, stature, status, thoughtfulness), ‏علل (show cause), ‏بيان بالأسباب, ‏تسبب في مقتل شخص, ‏محاسبة, ‏تفسير لسلوك المرء, ‏حساب (calculation, computation, counting, enumeration, reckoning, tab, tally), ‏حساب في المصرف, ‏قدم بياناعن, ‏قصة (anecdote, fiction, narration, narrative, novel, recital, report, story, tale, yarn), ‏قيمة (amount, price, rate, value, worth), ‏سبب (beget, breed, bring about, cause, give rise to, ground, inspire, motif, motive, occasion, procure, purpose, ratio, reason, rise, score, source, wherefore, why). (various references)

Bulgarian 

обяснение (declaration, exegesis, explanation, explication, exposition, interpretation, keyword, rationalization, why), докарвам (bring, bring over, bring up, dress, dress up, drive, induce, land, lay, produce, reduce, return, send, set, smarten, work), изгода (advantage, convenience, gain, interest, lucre, plunder, profit, spoil), полза (advantage, avail, behoof, boot, expedience, expediency, favour, good, interest, profit, use, utility, value, velvet), причина (cause, excuse, factor, occasion, parent, reason, room, score, spring, subject, why), баланс (balance, fly), значение (amount, consequence, consideration, denotation, hang, heft, import, importance, intention, interest, magnitude, matter, meaning, message, moment, notability, object, pith, sense, significance, signification, tenor, value, weight), давам сметка, описание (delineation, depiction, description, narration, narrative, portraiture, portrayal), считам за (rate), обяснявам (explain, explicate, illuminate, impute, interpret, justify, refer, set forth, set out, tell, translate, unravel), отговарям (accord, answer, correspond, fit, fulfill, match, rejoin, replicate, reply, respond, retort, vouch), отчет (report, statement), важност (concern, concernment, gravity, import, importance, interest, magnitude, materiality, moment, pith, pomposity, self-importance, seriousness, significance, solemnity, stress, value, weight), разказ (narration, narrative, recital, relation, short story, story), сметка (bill, check, guess, reckoning, score, shot, tab), ставам причина, опис (docket, inventory, list, register, schedule). (various references)

Catalan

creure (accredit, believe, deem). (various references)

Chinese 

賬 , 帐户, 帳戶 , 帳 (credit, curtain, debt, mosquito net, tent). (various references)

Czech

zpráva (advice, call, communication, despatch, dispatch, intimation, item, message, news, notice, report, statement, tidings, word), poèítání (calculation, count, reckoning), odpovìdnost (accountability, liability, responsibility), konto, faktura (bill, invoice), úvaha (consideration, deliberation, reasoning, reflection, thought), úèet (bill, check, invoice, receipt, tab). (various references)

Danish

konto (item). (various references)

Dutch

rekening (bill, calculation, check), conto. (various references)

Esperanto

raporto (record, report), konto. (various references)

Faeroese

virða (appreciate, consider, esteem, regard, take into account), upplýsing (information, reference), trúgva (accredit, believe, deem), søga (chronicle, history, narrative, story, tale), orsøk (cause, motive, reason), meta at vera (consider, esteem, regard, take into account), halda (accredit, believe, celebrate, deem, guess, hang onto, have a subscription, hold, presume, retain, suppose, surmise, take in), grund (ground, motive, reason, soil), gagn (advantage, benefit), frásøgn (narrative, story, tale), frágreiðing (explanation, record, report), áhugi (interest). (various references)

Farsi 

محاسبه نمودن , گزارش (Hearing, Inkling, Report, Story), حساب پس دادن (Reckon), حساب کردن (Calculate, Compute, Count, Figure, Score, Sum), حساب (Arithmetic, Calculation, Score, Tab, Tale, Tally), تخمین زدن (Appraise, Compute, Estimate, Guess, Guesstimate), سبب (Cause, Causer, Motive, Reason), صورت حساب (Invoice), ذکرعلت کردن , دانستن (Adjudge, Aim, Ascribe, Cognize, Con, Have, Know, Learn, Wit), بیان علت . (various references)

Finnish

tili. (various references)

French

compte, considérer (take into account). (various references)

Frisian

achtsje (consider, deem, look, opine, regard, think, view, watch), achtenearje (consider, deem, look, opine, regard, think, view, watch), ynteresse (interest), rekkenje (calculate, count, figure, settle, square up, work out), reden (ice skates, reason), motyf (motive, reason), miene (deem, opine, think), leauwe (accredit, belief, believe, deem, religion), ferklearring (explanation), ferhaal (narrative, story, tale), besiferje (calculate, count, figure, work out), berekkenje (calculate, count, figure, work out), belangstelling (activity, gusto, interest, spirit, stir, zest), ôfrekken (settlement). (various references)

German

Rechnung (arithmetic, bill, calculation, calculus, check, count, invoice, reckoning, score, statement, sum, tally), Konto (ledger), Bericht (bulletin, commentary, communication, information, item, narrative, news copy, record, report, run down, story, tale, update, write up), erachten (calculate, consider, count, deem, figure, find, judge, opine, think, work out), Beschreibung (depiction, description, descriptions, descriptive writing, instructions, specification). (various references)

Greek 

λογαριασμός (bill). (various references)

Hawaiian

arsye (motive, reason), rrëfim (narrative, story, tale), interes (interest), hesapi (bill, calculation), besue (accredit, believe, deem). (various references)

Hebrew 

חשבון (arithmetic, bill, check, invoice, reckoning, score, statement, tally). (various references)

Hungarian

számla (bill, check, invoice, score), beszámoló (coverage, narrative, oral, recital, report, statement, talk). (various references)

Icelandic

trúa (accredit, believe, deem), taka tillit til (consider, esteem, pay attention to, regard, take account of, take into account), skýring (explanation), saga (narrative, Saga, story, tale), reikningur, reikna (calculate, count, figure, work out), mér finnst (deem, opine, think). (various references)

Indonesian

rekening (acc, bill), perhitungan (calculation), nilai (mark, percentage, price, score), menghitung (calculate, compute, count), cerita (narrative, story). (various references)

Irish

cuntas, creid (accredit, believe, deem). (various references)

Italian

conto (bill, calculation, check, count, esteem, reckoning, regard, score, toll), considerare (bethink, call, consider, consider oneself, contemplate, count, debate, esteem, find, lookup, ponder, put down, rate, reck, reckon, reckon in, regard, revolve, take, take into account, think highly of, think of, to consider, to treat, treat, view), vantaggio (advantage, asset, avail, behoof, benefit, boon, convenience, forehand, gain, odds, perk, plus, profit, selling point, start, stead, usefulness, utility, vantage, virtue), spiegazione (assertion, enlightenment, explanation, explication, exposition, legend, rundown), rapporto (bearing, bulletin, comparison, concern, connection, connexion, contact, intercourse, minutes, privity, rapport, rate, ratio, reference, relation, relationship, report, return, statement, story, touch, truck), pareggiamento dei conti (settlement), credere (accredit, believe, calculate, consider oneself, credit, deem, imagine, reckon, suppose, think, trust, understand). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

記事　 (article, news story, report), 記事 (article, news story, report), 払い (bill, payment), 会計 (accountant, bill, finance, paymaster, reckoning, treasurer), 口座 , 付出し (bill), 付け出し (bill), アウ� 真理教 (acacia, academia, academy, accountability, accounting, Aeroflot, Aum Shinrikyou religious group, aura, owl). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きじ (abandoned child, article, cloth, foundling, material, news story, ones true character, pheasant, report, texture, unglazed pottery, unpainted wood, wood grain), つけ� し (bill), かいけい (accountant, bill, finance, paymaster, reckoning, seascape, treasurer, tuber), �"うざ (chair, course, crouching, lectureship, platform, pulpit, stage, upper seat), アカウント , はらい (bill, exorcism, payment, purification). (various references)

Korean 

계� �. (various references)

Lombard

cont. (various references)

Malay

sebab (reason), rekening (bill, calculation), perhitungan, daftar (bill, calculation, list), cerita (narrative, story, tale). (various references)

Manx

screeu coontee (account financial). (various references)

Norwegian

konto. (various references)

Papiamen

aklarashon (explanation), utilidat (advantage, benefit), rek (calculate, count, figure, work out), opiná (deem, opine, think), motibu (motive, reason), kuenta, konsiderá (consider, esteem, regard, take into account), kere (accredit, believe, deem), kalkulá (appraise, calculate, count, estimate, figure, rate, work out), interes (interest), informashon (information), deskripshon (description). (various references)

Pig Latin

accountay.(various references)

Polish

wierzyć (accredit, believe, deem), rachunek (bill, calculation), opowiadanie (narrative, story, tale), mniemać (deem, opine, think), liczyć (calculate, count, figure, work out), konto, śadzieć (deem, opine, think). (various references)

Portuguese

apresentar relatório (report), avaliação (appraisal, appraisement, appreciation, estimate, evaluation, pricing, putting, rate, rating, reckoning), acertar contas, considerar (bring into account, call, cogitate, consider, consult, count, debate, deliberate, esteem, hold, hold in esteem, honor, honour, look, look upon, notice, ponder, powwow, put down, rate, reckon, regard, repute, respect, see, take into account, touch upon, treat, view), dizer (blurt, converse, guffaw, inform, recital, recite, report, say, speak, state, tell, to tell, utter), descrição (delimitation, description, designation, painting, portrait, portrayal), descrever (characterize, depict, depicture, describe, design, narrate, portray, relate, report, represent, tell, write), dar conta de, contar (count, depend, narrate, number, numerate, reckon, relate, report, tell, to count), explicação (apology, definition, elucidation, exegesis, explanation, explication, exposition, interpretation, secret), conta (bill, calculation, check, cheque, count, invoice, reckoning, sum), explicar (advance, clarify, construe, define, enucleate, explain, explicate, expound, gloss, illustrate, instantiate, interpret, justify, lay out, represent, resolve, solve, tell, to explain, unriddle), consideração (consideration, deference, deliberation, esteem, estimation, regard, respect, thought), cliente (client, customer, patient), causa (affair, brief, business, business deal, case, cause, fortuity, fount, inducement, lawsuit, matter, motive, mover, occasion, parent, reason, root, sake, wherefore), calcular (appraise, calculate, cast up, cipher, compute, count, cypher, estimate, evaluate, figure, figure out, gage, gauge, log, number, rate, reckon), cálculo (appraisal, appraisement, calculation, calculus, cast, clearing-off, computation, compute, estimate, measurement, numeration, putting, rate, reckoning, sum, tally, working-out), conta corrente (checking account, current account), nota (annotation, bank note, bill, entry, grade, invoice, memorandum, notation, note, notice, observation, receipt, record, remark), tornar compreensível, significado (amount, drift, effect, hang, import, meaning, purport, sense, significance, signification, tenor), ser responsável por, relato (ascription, description, mention, narration, narrative, relation, report, saying, story), relatar (describe, give an account, mention, narrate, relate, report, tell), referir (attach, attribute, give an account, point, quote, recur, refer, relate, report, state, tautologize, tell), estima (appraisal, appraisement, appreciation, endearment, esteem, estimation, regard, respect, value), prestação de contas, valor (amount, chalk, grade, importance, manhood, merit, prowess, purchase, quality, rating, valiancy, valuation, virtue, worth), narrativa (narration, narrative, recital, rede, relation, story, tale), motivo (cause, foundation, ground, motif, motive, motto, mover, occasion, persuasive, place, reason, sake, score, signal, subject, wherefore, why), julgar (accept, accredit, adjudge, adjudicate, allow, arbitrate, award, believe, conceive, count, decide, deem, fancy, find, guess, hold, imagine, judge, measure, opine, repute, suppose, think, try, understand), influência (action, ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, contact, domination, energy, inspiration, leading, leverage, power, prestige, purchase, weight, yeast), importância (amount, archness, bigness, caliber, calibre, concernment, consideration, magnitude, materiality, matter, moment, ponderosity, prestige, salience, seriousness, significance, signification, stress, sum, value), fatura (bill, invoice), expor (carry forth, converse, create, demonstrate, disclose, enunciate, exhibit, explicate, expose, expound, feature, imperil, lay open, produce, propone, propound, put, report, represent, set up, show, speak, spread, spread out, state, subject, turn up), reconhecer como. (various references)

Romanian

povestire (anecdotage, fable, narration, narrative, recital, recording, Rede, relation, short story, story, tale, telling), cont (reckoning, shot). (various references)

Russian 

считать (be of the opinion, consider, consider [], count, date, deem, deeming, esteem, guess, look on, number, rate, reckon, regard, regarded, think, think of as, think to be). (various references)

Scottish

son (advantage, good, profit : air mo, sake), sgeulachd (narrative, story, story telling; a tale, tale), sgeul (narrative, story, tale), creid (accredit, believe, deem). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

račun (arithmetic, bill, calculation, calculus, check, chit, count, reckoning, tab), opravdati (acquit, clear, excuse, justify, legitimate, vindicate, warrant), objasniti (elucidate, explain, make understand), izveštaj (fill in, notice, release, report, statement, write up), iskaz (parole, predicate, predication, statement, utterance). (various references)

Spanish

cuenta (an account, bead, bill, calculation, check, count, estimate, invoice, reckoning, score, tab, tally), considerar (behold, consider, contemplate, deem, define, esteem, judge, look at, look on, look upon, perpend, ponder, reckon, regard, set down, take into account, take into consideration, think, think over, view, weigh). (various references)

Sranan

tori (betray, narrative, story, tale), leti (direct, light, reason, straight), ede (head, pate, reason), bribi (accredit, believe, deem). (various references)

Swahili

hesabu (number, numeral). (various references)

Swedish

räkning (bill, billing, calculation, cast, count, counting, invoice, reckoning, score, tally), räkenskap, konto (charge account), beskrivning (delineation, description), berättelse (history, narrative, relation, report, story, tale), beräkning (calculation, computation, estimate, estimation, forethought, numeration, projection, reckoning). (various references)

Tagalog

paglalaráwan (description), naniniwal� (accredit, believe, deem), kuwenta (bill, calculation), kuwénta, katwíran (reason), dahilán (cause, reason). (various references)

Turkish

hesap (arithmetic, bill, calculation, calculus, computation, count, counting, estimate, reckoning, score, settling, sum, sums). (various references)

Turkmen 

hasap (count, tally). (various references)

Ukrainian

визнавати (accept, acknowledge, admit, allow, avouch, avow, confess, declare, own, recognize), причина (bottom, breeder, cause, occasion, reason, score), підстава (base, basis, cause, ground, occasion, reason, warranty), значення (bearing, consequence, знаЧеннЯ [n], import, intent, meaning, purport, sense, significance, significancy, signification, sound, value, weight), звіт, звітувати, пояснювати (account for, analogize, attribute, authorize, clear, comment, construe, elucidate, explain, illustrate, rationalize, show, translate), оцінка (appraisal, appraisement, estimate, estimation, opinion, rating, summing up, valuation), рахунок (bill, chalk, chit, count, expense, reckoning, score, scoring, tick), вигода (accommodation, advantage, avail, behoof, boot, capital, emolument, profit, spoil), важливість (amount, concern, consequence, earnest, gravity, import, importance, magnitude, moment, notability, pregnancy, seriousness, significance, significancy), вважати (allot, allow, assume, believe, calculate, conceive, consider, count, deem, opine, posit, rate, repute, set down, suspect, think), відгук (antiphon, repercussion, respond, response), користь (advantage, avail, benefit, convenience, emolument, gain, good, profit, use), разрахунок, нести відповідальність (be to blame, have responsibility). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nguyên nhân (cause, matter, mother), bịa ra một khoản, bắt phải báo cáo mọi khoản thu chi, bản thanh toán tiền, chết đánh giá cao, coi trọng mong đợi ở cái gì, giá trị theo sự đánh giá chung, hy vọng ở cái gì không quan tâm đến, kê khai giả mạo một khoản đòi báo cáo sổ sách, kế toán bản kê khai, không để ý đến (disinterested, disregardful), b� i tường thuật (narration, news story), lợi ích lý do, vì lợi ích của mình, số tiền gửi lợi, sự chú ý (advertence, advertency, care, heedfulness, interest, nevermind, observation, regard), sự giải thích báo cáo, sự lưu tâm tầm quan trọng, sự miêu tả sự đánh giá, sự tường thuật (narration), sự tính toán sự kế toán, sự trả l� m nhiều kỳ t� i khoản, sổ sách, thanh toán mối thù với ai, không đếm xỉa đến vì mình. (various references)

Welsh

adroddiad (recitation, report), adlo (reason), hanes (history, story), cyfrif (ascribe, attribute, compute, impute, reckon, reckoning), credu (accredit, believe, deem). (various references)

Yucatec

tsoolik (account for, clarify, explain), la'tene (on that account, therefore). (various references)

Zulu

iakhawunti (bill, calculation), -ethemba (accredit, believe, confide, deem, entrust, have confidence in, have faith, have faith in, hope, trust). (various references)

adversari, adversarii, adversariis, adversario, adversariorum, adversarium, calculus, computare, conscriptionem, conscriptiones, expeditione, expeditionem, historia, historiae, historiam, historiarum, historias, historiis, littera, litterae, litteram, litterarum, litteras, litteris, nomen, nomenque, nomina, nomine, nomini, nominibus, nominis, nominum, rationabilem, traditionem, traditiones. (various references)

computus. (various references)

acont. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "account": accountabilities, accountability, accountable, accountableness, accountablenesses, accountably, accountancies, accountancy, accountant, accountants, accountantship, accountantships, accounted, accounting, accountings, accounts. (additional references)

Words containing "account": nonaccountable, unaccountabilities, unaccountability, unaccountable, unaccountably, unaccounted. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Account" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accont, accou, accound, accoust, accout, Accunet, accunt, acount, acourt, acuent, ecount. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: toucan.

-2 letters: canto, coact, cotan, count, octan.

-3 letters: aunt, auto, cant, coat, coca, nota, taco, tuna, unco, unto.

-4 letters: act, ant, can, cat, con, cot, cut, not, nut, oat, oca, out, tan, tao, tau, ton, tun, uta.

-5 letters: an, at, na, no, nu, on, ta, to, un, ut.

+1 letter: accounts, cocoanut, couchant, occupant.

+2 letters: accounted, cocoanuts, contumacy, coruscant, occupants.

+3 letters: accountant, accounting, accoutring, accusation, buccinator, conceptual, counteract, cunctation, flocculant, inculcator, occupation.

+4 letters: accountable, accountably, accountancy, accountants, accountings, accoutering, accusations, accustoming, acoustician, anacoluthic, backcountry, buccinators, calculation, circulation, coeducation, communicant, communicate, conductance, conflictual, conjectural, conjunctiva, consultancy, continuance, contractual, contracture, contumacies, coruscating, coruscation, cotransduce, countenance, counteracts, cunctations, flocculants, glauconitic, inculcation, inculcators, obscurantic, occultation, occupations, outcatching, outcoaching, pococurante, sacculation, subcontract, unaccounted.