account — OET

account

noun

1 the police officer then gave his account of the incident:

description, report, version, story, narration, narrative, statement, news, explanation, exposition, interpretation, communiqué, recital, rendition, sketch, delineation, portrayal, tale;

chronicle, history, record, archive, annal, minute, transaction, proceeding, transcript, diary, journal, weblog, blog, vlog, moblog, memoir, review, register, log, relation, rehearsal, side, view, impression;

Military, informal sitrep.

2 a sensitive account of the Debussy Sonata:

performance, interpretation, rendering, rendition, reading, recital, playing, singing, execution.

3 (usually accounts) the firm's accounts are in good order:

financial record, book, ledger, journal, balance sheet, financial statement, results.

4 departing guests pay their accounts at the office:

bill, invoice, statement, list of charges, reckoning, tally;

debt, amount due;

North American check;

informal tab;

archaic score.

5 he has accounts with several banks:

bank account;

savings account;

British current account, deposit account.

6 the casualties they suffer will be of no account:

importance, import, significance, consequence, moment, momentousness, substance, note, mark, prominence, value, weightiness, weight, concern, interest, gravity, seriousness.

□ by all accounts

by all accounts Hayes was a man of taste and cultivation:

reputedly, supposedly, according to popular belief, so the story goes, so I'm told, so people say, by repute, allegedly, putatively, apparently, seemingly, ostensibly.

□ on account of

they had closed early on account of the snow:

because of, owing to, due to, as a consequence of, thanks to, through, by reason of, by/in virtue of, on grounds of, in view of;

after, following, in the wake of, at a time of;

British off the back of.

□ on no account

on no account sign any document without reading it:

never, certainly not, absolutely not, definitely not, not in any event, by no means;

not under/in any circumstances, under/in no circumstances, not for any reason, not for a moment;

informal no way, not on your life, not in a million years, not for love or money;

British, informal not on your nelly.

▷antonyms definitely.

□ take something into account

let's look at the factors you should take into account:

consider, take account of, take into consideration, make allowances for, respect, bear in mind, be mindful of, have regard to, reckon with, remember, mind, mark, heed, note, not forget, make provision for, take to heart, pay/have regard to, be guided by.

▷antonyms ignore.

□ take account of something

the design of the new building had to take account of noise and air pollution:

consider, take into account, take into consideration, make allowances for, respect, bear in mind, be mindful of, have regard to, reckon with, remember, mind, mark, heed, note, not forget, make provision for, take to heart, pay/have regard to, be guided by.

▷antonyms ignore.

verb

her visit could not be accounted a success:

consider, regard as, reckon, hold to be, think, think of as, look on as, view as, see as, take for, judge, adjudge, count, deem, rate, gauge, interpret as.

□ account for

1 they must account for the delay:

explain, give an explanation, come up with an explanation, explain away, answer for, give reasons for, rationalize, provide a rationale for, show grounds for, elucidate, illuminate, clear up;

defend, vindicate, justify, excuse, make excuses for, make acceptable;

rare extenuate.

2 excise duties account for over half the price of Scotch:

constitute, make up, comprise, form, compose, be responsible for, represent, supply, provide, give.

3 its awe-inspiring whirlpool has accounted for many sailors’ lives:

dispose of, finish off, make an end of, deal with, put paid to, take care of, clear up, mop up, eliminate, kill, destroy, dispatch, put out of action, incapacitate.

account Oxford Dictionary of English