account

noun

• 1a report or description of an event or experience:a detailed account of what has been achieved

• 2a record or statement of financial expenditure and receipts relating to a particular period or purpose:the barman was doing his accounts
• chiefly British a bill for goods or services provided over a period:there’s no money to pay the tradesmen’s accounts this month

• 3an arrangement by which a body holds funds on behalf of a client or supplies goods or services to them on credit:a bank account I began buying things on account
• a client having an account with a supplier:selling bibles to established accounts in the North
• a contract to do work for a client:another agency was awarded the account
• Stock Exchange, British a fixed period on a stock exchange, at the end of which payment must be made for stock that has been bought.

• 4 [mass noun] importance:money was of no account to her

• 5an interpretation or rendering of a piece of music:a lively account of Offenbach’s score

verb

• 1 [with object and complement] consider or regard in a specified way:her visit could not be accounted a success he accounted himself the unluckiest man alive

• 2 [no object] archaic give or receive an account for money received:after 1292 he accounted to the Westminster exchequer