account

Definitions

• (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 sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal.
• 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.
• (business) A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit.
• A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description.
• An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
• Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
• An authorization to use a service.
• (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
• Profit; advantage.