See Also: On Account(money)
no-account(dictionary)
account(2)(dictionary)
account(1)(dictionary)
Key Account(money)
TT&L account(money)
Account(money)
Account(finance)
Concentration account(finance)
Cash account(finance)

account(2) (iou)



account verb. Also (arch.) accompt. ME.
[Old French acunter, aconter, formed as A-5 + COUNT verb.]
I. verb trans. Count, enumerate. ME-E17.
b. verb intrans. Perform the act of counting. LME-L18.
Adam Smith Able to read, write, and account.
verb intrans. Render or receive an account. ME.
Burke Paymasters..who have never been admitted to account.
b. verb trans. Render account of. E17.
M. Pattison All receipts should be accounted to a finance committee.
a. verb trans. Calculate, compute; include in a reckoning. LME-E19.
Trevisa The Grekes acounte tyme and yeres fro the fyrst Olympias. Southey Wales, Scotland, and Ireland ought to be accounted with England.
b. verb trans. Reckon, credit, to, unto. LME.
verb trans. Reckon, estimate (to be so and so), consider, regard as. LME.
Bible (AV): Romans 8:36 We are accounted as sheepe for the slaughter. A. Hecht Trajan, of his imperial peers Accounted 'the most just'.
II.
verb trans. & intrans. Recount, narrate. ME-L16.
With prepositions in specialized senses: account for (a) give a reckoning of (money held in trust); answer for (conduct, performance of duty, etc.); (b) explain the cause of, serve as an explanation of; (c) constitute a specified total, proportion, etc., in a reckoning; (d) be responsible for the death, defeat, dismissal, etc., of. account of esteem, value; think (much, little, nothing, etc.) of; (now only in pass.). account to put (something) to the credit of, attribute to.
accounter noun ME-M17.