To count or reckon as; deem; consider; think; hold to be.To reckon or compute; count.To assign or impute; give the credit of; reckon as belonging or attributable.To give an account, reason, or explanation of; explain.To take into consideration.To recount; relate.To render an account or relation of particulars; answer in a responsible character: followed by with or to before a person, and by for before a thing: as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.To furnish or assign a reason or reasons; give an explanation: with for: as, idleness accounts for poverty.To reckon; count.n. A reckoning, an enumeration, or a computation; method of computing: as, the Julian account of time.n. A reckoning of money or business; a statement or record of financial or pecuniary transactions, with their debits and credits, or of money received and paid and the balance on hand or due: as, to keep accounts; to make out an account.n. A course of business dealings or relations requiring the keeping of records: as, to have an account with the bank.n. On the stock exchange, that part of the transactions between buyer and seller to be settled on the fortnightly or monthly settling-day: as, I have sold A. B. 500 shares for the account.n. Narrative; relation; statement of facts; a recital, verbal or written, of particular transactions and events: as, an account of the revolution in France.n. A statement of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event: as, no satisfactory account has yet been given of these phenomena.n. An explanatory statement or vindication of one's conduct, such as is given to a superior.n. Reason or consideration; ground: used with on: as, on all accounts; on every account; on account of.n. Estimation; esteem; distinction; dignity; consequence or importance.n. Profit; advantage: as, to find one's account in a pursuit; to turn anything to account.n. Regard; behalf; sake: as, all this trouble I have incurred on your account.n. Sometimes spelled accompt.Accounted; reckoned.