account
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(verb) keep an account of |
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Synonyms: calculate |
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Related Words: balance, bill, charge, compound, credit, debit, overbalance |
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(noun) the quality of taking advantage; "she turned her writing skills to good account" |
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Related Words: gain, profit |
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(noun) importance or value; "a person of considerable account"; "he predicted that although it is of small account now it will rapidly increase in importance" |
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Related Words: importance |
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(noun) a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance; "they send me an accounting every month" |
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Synonyms: account statement, accounting |
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Related Words: capital account, expense account, financial statement, profit and loss, profit and loss account, statement, suspense account, travel and entertainment account |
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(noun) a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services; "he asked to see the executive who handled his account" |
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Synonyms: business relationship |
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Related Words: bank account, brokerage account, relationship, short account |
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(noun) a record or narrative description of past events: "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead" |
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Synonyms: chronicle, history, story |
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Related Words: annals, biography, case history, chronological record, etymology, historical document, historical paper, historical record, life, life history, life story, record |
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(noun) a statement of money owed for goods or services; "he paid his bill and left"; "send me an account of what I owe" |
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Synonyms: bill, invoice |
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Related Words: check, chit, doctor's bill, electric bill, financial statement, hotel bill, medical bill, phone bill, reckoning, statement, tab, tally, tax bill, telephone bill |
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(noun) a statement that explains; "he launched into a detailed explanation"; "he demanded that I give an account for my failure" |
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Synonyms: explanation |
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Related Words: accounting, definition, derivation, deriving, etymologizing, explication, gloss, interpretation, justification, reason, rubric, statement |
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(noun) the act of informing by verbal report; "he heard reports that they were causing trouble"; "by all accounts they were a happy couple" |
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Synonyms: report |
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Related Words: anecdote, comment, debriefing, direct discourse, direct quotation, gossip, indirect discourse, informing, making known, narration, narrative, recital, scuttlebutt, story, tale, yarn |
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(noun) grounds; "don't do it on my account"; "the paper was rejected on acount of its length"; "he tried to blame the victim but his success on that score was doubtful" |
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Synonyms: score |
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Related Words: ground, reason |
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(noun) a short account of the news; "the report of his speech"; "the story was on the 11 o'clock news"; "the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious" |
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Synonyms: news report, report, story, write up |
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Related Words: bulletin, communique, despatch, dispatch, exclusive, news, newsletter, newssheet, scoop |
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