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单词 account
释义

account

English

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ə.ˈkaʊnt/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aʊnt
  • Hyphenation: ac‧count

Etymology 1

From Middle English acounte, from Anglo-Norman acunte (“account”), from Old French aconte, from aconter (“to reckon”), from Latin computō (“to sum up”).

Noun

account (plural accounts)

  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. [from c. 1300]
  2. (banking) A bank account.
    • 1910, Journal of the American Bankers Association Vol. XI, No. 1, American Bankers Association, page 3:
      The Pueblo bank has advised that the operator opened an account at that bank with currency, and a few days later withdrew the amount.
  3. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
    Synonyms: accounting, explanation
    • 2012 January 1, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 1, page 60:
      Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
    No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Luke 16:2:
      Give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.
  4. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
    Don't trouble yourself on my account.
    on no account
    on every account
    on all accounts
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], OCLC 560090630:
      […] who evidently a glutton for work, it struck him, was having a quiet forty winks for all intents and purposes on his own private account while Dublin slept.
  5. A record of events; a relation or narrative. [from c. 1610]
    Synonyms: narrative, narration, relation, recital, report, description, explanation
    An account of a battle.
    • Template:RQ:Howell Londonopolis
    • 1920, Carl D. Buck, “Hittite an Indo-European Language?”, in Classical Philology, volume 15, number 2, DOI:10.1086/360279, page 185:
      The study of the main body of Hittite texts was intrusted[sic] to the Austrian scholar Hrozny, who in 1915 published a preliminary account of his results […]
    • 2000, Yunzhong Shu, chapter 2, in Buglers on the Home Front: The Wartime Practice of the Qiyue School, State University of New York Press, page 58:
      In a lapidary style, Qiu Dongping clearly and forcefully describes battlefield actions with simple sentences, giving a blow-by-blow account of successive events with neither understatement nor exaggeration.
  6. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
    • 1623, Shakespeare, William, The Merchant of Venice, act 3, scene 2:
      To stand high in your account
  7. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
    • 1725, Homer; [Alexander Pope], transl., “Book XIV”, in The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: […] Bernard Lintot, OCLC 8736646, footnote:
      There is a peculiarity in Homer's manner of apostrophizing Eumaeus, and speaking of him in the second person; it is generally apply'd by that Poet only to men of account and distinction, and by it the Poet, as it were, adresses them with respect
  8. Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
    • 2000, Sean Mooney, 5,110 Days in Tokyo and Everything's Hunky-dory, page 66:
      In these cases, the agency has to buy through another ad agency that has an account with the media vehicle in question.
    • 2002, Whizkids Data Creation:
      For example, to register an account with Hotmail, you should type www.hotmail.com on the Address bar of your browser to go to the Hotmail e-mail service WEB page.
    • 2006, Michael Miller, Choosing an Online Payment Service:
      While the buyer might have to create an account with the online payment service, this account is free; the account exists only to facilitate future transactions, since the buyer's address and payment information doesn't have to be re-entered for each new transaction.
    • 2009, Jason Rich, Design and Launch an Online Web Design Business in a Week, page 223:
      Depending on the shipping options you plan to offer to your customers, you'll probably need to open shipping accounts with FedEx, UPS, and perhaps other couriers as well.
    • 2014, Brad Miser, My iPhone (Covers iOS 8 on iPhone 6/6 Plus, 5S/5C/5, and 4S), page 71:
      Of course, to use iCloud on your iPhone, you need to have an iCloud account.
    Synonyms: membership, registration
    Meronym: username
    I've opened an account with Wikipedia so that I can contribute and partake in the project.
  9. (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
    • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
      It seems that this severity weakened his frame, for three years syne come Martinmas he was taken ill with a fever of the bowels, and after a week's sickness he went to his account, where I trust he is accepted.
  10. (uncountable) Profit; advantage.
    The young man soon turned his woodworking skills to some account.
Usage notes
  • Abbreviations: (business): A/C, a/c, acct., acc.
Derived terms
Financial terms
  • account balance
  • account book
  • account code
  • account day
  • account executive
  • account man
  • account manager
  • account number
  • account payable
  • account receivable
  • account stated
  • account statement
  • active account
  • bank account
  • book account
  • capital account
  • cash account
  • cast accounts
  • charge account
  • checking account, chequing account
  • concentration account
  • control account
  • credit account
  • current account
  • custodial account
  • deferred account
  • deposit account
  • discretionary account
  • dormant account
  • drawing account
  • escrow account
  • expense account
  • final account
  • flex account
  • frozen account
  • general account
  • giro account
  • house account
  • insured account
  • joint account
  • managed account
  • margin account
  • merchant account
  • mixed account
  • money of account
  • nostro account
  • NOW account
  • numbered account
  • omnibus account
  • open account
  • option account
  • overdraft checking account
  • pension account
  • profit and loss account
  • reserved account
  • restricted account
  • retirement account
  • savings account
  • separate account
  • settle one's account
  • share premium account
  • stock account
  • suspense account
  • sweep account
  • Swiss bank account
  • trading account
  • transaction account
  • trust account
  • trustee account
  • undermargined account
  • undivided account
  • valuation account
  • vostro account
  • western account
  • wrap account
  • zero-balance account
Non-financial terms
  • account current: a running or continued account between two or more parties, or a statement of the particulars of such an account
  • a writ of account (Law): a writ which the plaintiff brings demanding that the defendant shall render his just account, or show good cause to the contrary; -- called also an action of account
  • call to account
  • cast up one's accounts
  • find one's account
  • Flemish account
  • flop account
  • gimmick account
  • give a good account of oneself
  • go on the account
  • hold to account
  • in account with: in a relation requiring an account to be kept
  • latitude by account
  • lay one's account
  • make account: (Obsolete): to have an opinion or expectation; to reckon
  • make account of: to hold in estimation; to esteem; as, he makes small account of beauty
  • no-account
  • on account
  • on account of: for the sake of; by reason of; because of
  • on no account
  • on one's own account: for one's own interest or behalf
  • on someone's account
  • shell account
  • short account
  • sleeper account
  • smurf account
  • take account of, or take into account: to take into consideration; to notice
  • take into account
  • theoretical account
  • turn to account
  • turn to good account
Descendants
  • → Japanese: アカウント (akaunto)
  • → Swahili: akaunti
Translations
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Etymology 2

From Old French acounter, accomptere et al., from a- + conter (“to count”)). Compare count.

Verb

account (third-person singular simple present accounts, present participle accounting, simple past and past participle accounted)

  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.]
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:deem
      • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 8, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, OCLC 191225086, book III (The Modern Worker):
        The Pagan Hercules, why was he accounted a hero?
    4. (intransitive) To consider that. [from 14th c.]
      • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Hebrews 11:19:
        Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
    5. (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc. [from 15th c.]
      An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
    6. (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for. [from 16th c.]
      We must account for the use of our opportunities.
    7. (intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain. [from 16th c.]
      Idleness accounts for poverty.
    8. (intransitive) To establish the location for someone. [from 19th c.]
      After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for.
    9. (intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for). [from 19th c.]
      • 1848, Thackeray, William Makepeace, chapter 45, in Vanity Fair:
        Desperately bold at last, the persecuted animals bolted above-ground—the terrier accounted for one, the keeper for another; Rawdon, from flurry and excitement, missed his rat, but on the other hand he half-murdered a ferret.
  2. To count.
    1. (transitive, now rare) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time). [from 14th c.]
      • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203:
        neither the motion of the Moon, whereby moneths are computed; nor of the Sun, whereby years are accounted, consisteth of whole numbers, but admits of fractions, and broken parts, as we have already declared concerning the Moon.
    2. (obsolete) To count (up), enumerate. [14th–17th c.]
    3. (obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.). [14th–16th c.]
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
        Long worke it were / Here to account the endlesse progeny / Of all the weeds that bud and blossome there [...].
Derived terms
terms derived from account (verb)
  • account for
  • account of
  • accountable
  • accountant
Translations
credit (to) — see credit
account for — see account for
account to — see account to
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
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Further reading

  • account on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • account (bookkeeping) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • account at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • account in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Chinese

Etymology 1

From English account. Doublet of AC.

Pronunciation

  • Cantonese (Jyutping): aa6 kaan1, aa6 kaang1
  • Cantonese
    • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
      • Jyutping: aa6 kaan1, aa6 kaang1
      • Yale: ah kāan, ah kāang
      • Cantonese Pinyin: aa6 kaan1, aa6 kaang1
      • Guangdong Romanization: a6 kan1, a6 kang1
      • Sinological IPA (key): /aː²² kʰaːn⁵⁵/, /aː²² kʰaːŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

account

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) bank account
  2. (Hong Kong Cantonese) account that is used for accessing Internet services
Alternative forms
  • (account for accessing Internet services): acc
  • AC

Etymology 2

From clipping of English accounting.

Pronunciation

  • Cantonese (Jyutping): aa6 kaan1, aa6 kaang1
  • Cantonese
    • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
      • Jyutping: aa6 kaan1, aa6 kaang1
      • Yale: ah kāan, ah kāang
      • Cantonese Pinyin: aa6 kaan1, aa6 kaang1
      • Guangdong Romanization: a6 kan1, a6 kang1
      • Sinological IPA (key): /aː²² kʰaːn⁵⁵/, /aː²² kʰaːŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

account

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) accounting; accounting industry; accountant

References

  • English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English account.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑˈkɑu̯nt/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: ac‧count

Noun

account n or m (plural accounts, diminutive accountje n)

  1. a subscription to an electronic service
  2. (business) a B2B-customer

Usage notes

In Flanders, the word can be both masculine (more common) as neuter (less common). In the Netherlands, it can only be neuter.

  • accountant

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: akun

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English account. Doublet of conto.

Noun

account m (invariable)

  1. (computing) account
    Synonym: conto

Further reading

  • account in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Scots

Noun

account

  1. Alternative form of accoont

References

  • “account, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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