Definition of account

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Account (n.) A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts..

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Verify :: Verify (v. t.) To confirm or establish the authenticity of by examination or competent evidence; to authenciate; as, to verify a written statement; to verify an account, a pleading, or the like..
Thereupon :: Thereupon (adv.) On account, or in consequence, of that; therefore..
Controller :: Controller (n.) An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts..
Caster :: Caster (n.) One who casts; as, caster of stones, etc. ; a caster of cannon; a caster of accounts..
Agnomen :: Agnomen (n.) An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, on account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus..
Summation :: Summary (a.) A general or comprehensive statement; an abridged account; an abstract, abridgment, or compendium, containing the sum or substance of a fuller account..
Counterrolment :: Counterrolment (n.) A counter account. See Control.
Repute :: Repute (v. t.) To hold in thought; to account; to estimate; to hold; to think; to reckon.
Settlement :: Settlement (n.) The act or process of adjusting or determining; composure of doubts or differences; pacification; liquidation of accounts; arrangement; adjustment; as, settlement of a controversy, of accounts, etc..
Discount :: Discount (v.) To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
Bissextile :: Bissextile (n.) Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400..
Deem :: Deem (v.) To account; to esteem; to think; to judge; to hold in opinion; to regard.
Collect :: Collect (v. t.) To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes..
Anna :: Anna (n.) An East Indian money of account, the sixteenth of a rupee, or about 2/ cents..
Short :: Short (superl.) Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith..
Report :: Report (v. t.) To give an account of; to relate; to tell; to circulate publicly, as a story; as, in the common phrase, it is reported..
Name :: Name (n.) A descriptive or qualifying appellation given to a person or thing, on account of a character or acts..
Thereat :: Thereat (adv.) At that occurrence or event; on that account.
Stock :: Stock (n.) Same as Stock account, below..
Exactness :: Exactness (n.) Careful observance of method and conformity to truth; as, exactness in accounts or business..
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