Definition of account

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Account (v. i.) To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received..

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Monograph :: Monograph (n.) A written account or description of a single thing, or class of things; a special treatise on a particular subject of limited range..
Ticket :: Ticket (v.) A tradesman's bill or account.
Tally :: Tally (n.) Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book; especially, one kept in duplicate..
Mean :: Mean (superl.) Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
Abacist :: Abacist (n.) One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.
Misreport :: Misreport (n.) An erroneous report; a false or incorrect account given.
Discount :: Discount (v.) To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills..
Countercaster :: Countercaster (n.) A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper; -- used contemptuously.
Word :: Word (n.) Account; tidings; message; communication; information; -- used only in the singular.
Item :: Item (n.) An article; a separate particular in an account; as, the items in a bill..
Accountant :: Accountant (n.) A reckoner.
Offset :: Offset (n.) A sum, account, or value set off against another sum or account, as an equivalent; hence, anything which is given in exchange or retaliation; a set-off..
Scalp :: Scalp (v. i.) To make a small, quick profit by slight fluctuations of the market; -- said of brokers who operate in this way on their own account..
Manipulate :: Manipulate (v. t.) To control the action of, by management; as, to manipulate a convention of delegates; to manipulate the stock market; also, to manage artfully or fraudulently; as, to manipulate accounts, or election returns..
Minor :: Minor (a.) Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body..
Report :: Report (v. i.) To furnish in writing an account of a speech, the proceedings at a meeting, the particulars of an occurrence, etc., for publication..
Detail :: Detail (n.) A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
Surcharge :: Surcharge (v. t.) To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
Score :: Score (n.) A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account..
Cosmogony :: Cosmogony (n.) The creation of the world or universe; a theory or account of such creation; as, the poetical cosmogony of Hesoid; the cosmogonies of Thales, Anaxagoras, and Plato..
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