Usually means: Record of financial transactions maintained.
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  1. account: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. account: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. account: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. account: Collins English Dictionary
  5. account: Vocabulary.com
  6. Account, account: Wordnik
  7. account: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. account: Wiktionary
  9. account: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. account: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. account: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. account: Dictionary.com
  13. account (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. account: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Account (accountancy), Account (bookkeeping), Account: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Account: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. account: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. account: Rhymezone
  19. account: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. account: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. account: Free Dictionary
  22. account: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. account: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. account: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. Account: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. account: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. ACCOUNT: Accounting Glossary
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. Account: Investopedia
  9. account: Legal dictionary
  10. account: Financial dictionary
  11. Account: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. account: Netlingo
  2. Data Formats and Their Sugggested File Extensions (No longer online)
  3. account: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. account: Medical dictionary

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  1. account: Idioms

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  1. Account: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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.
noun:  (banking) A bank account.
noun:  A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
noun:  A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
noun:  A record of events; a relation or narrative.
noun:  An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
noun:  Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
noun:  Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
noun:  (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
noun:  (uncountable) Profit; advantage.
verb:  To provide explanation.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To present an account of; to answer for, to justify.
verb:  (intransitive, now rare) To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc.
verb:  (transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
verb:  (intransitive) To consider that.
verb:  (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.
verb:  (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.
verb:  (intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.
verb:  (intransitive) To establish the location for someone.
verb:  (intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).
verb:  To count.
verb:  (transitive, now rare) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time).
verb:  (obsolete) To count (up), enumerate.
verb:  (obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.).

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