English Dictionary

account

/ə.ˈkaʊnt/

noun

(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.

I need to update my account information.

意味（1）

(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.

意味（2）

(banking) A bank account.

The Pueblo bank has advised that the operator opened an account at that bank with currency, and a few days later withdrew the amount.

意味（3）

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

Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.

意味（4）

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

Don't trouble yourself on my account.

意味（5）

A record of events; a relation or narrative.

An account of a battle.

意味（6）

An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.

To stand high in your account

意味（7）

Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.

There is a peculiarity in Homer's manner of apostrophizing Eumaeus, and speaking of him in the second person; it is generally apply'd by that Poet only to men of account and distinction, and by it the Poet, as it were, adresses them with respect

意味（8）

Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.

In these cases, the agency has to buy through another ad agency that has an account with the media vehicle in question.

意味（9）

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

It seems that this severity weakened his frame, for three years syne come Martinmas he was taken ill with a fever of the bowels, and after a week's sickness he went to his account, where I trust he is accepted.

意味（10）

(uncountable) Profit; advantage.

The young man soon turned his woodworking skills to some account.