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What does account mean?

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Noun
  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
  2. (banking) A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal.
  3. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
  4. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive.
  5. (business) A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit.
  6. A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description.
  7. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
  8. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
  9. An authorization to use a service.
  10. (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
  11. Profit; advantage.
Verb
  1. to provide explanation
    1. (obsolete, transitive) To present an account of; to answer for, to justify. [14th-17th c.]
    2. (intransitive, now rare) To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc. [from 14th c.]
    3. (transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described). [from 14th c.]
    4. (intransitive) To consider that. [from 14th c.]
    5. (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc. [from 15th c.]
    6. (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for. [from 16th c.]
    7. (intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain. [from 16th c.]
    8. (intransitive) To establish the location for someone. [from 19th c.]
    9. (intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for). [from 19th c.]
  2. to count
    1. (transitive, now rare) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time). [from 14th c.]
    2. (obsolete) To count (up), enumerate. [14th-17th c.]
    3. (obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.). [14th-16th c.]
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