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(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.

(banking) A bank account.

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

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

A record of events; a relation or narrative. +

An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.

Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.

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

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

Profit; advantage.

To provide explanation.

To present an account of; to answer for, to justify. (17th c.)

(rare) To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc.

To estimate, consider (something to be as described).

To consider (that).

To give a satisfactory evaluation (for) financial transactions, money received etc.

To give a satisfactory evaluation (for) (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer (for).

To give a satisfactory reason (for); to explain.

To establish the location (for) someone.

To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ (for)).

To count.

(rare) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time).

(obsolete) To count (up), enumerate. (17th c.)

(obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.). (16th c.)