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accounting to

accounting to is the present participle and gerund of account to.

Meaning of account to

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To answer to; to be responsible to.
    • I don't have to account to you for my actions.

Questions about accounting to

What is accounting to the present participle and gerund of?
Accounting to is the present participle and gerund of account to.

Words near accounting to in the dictionary

  1. accounting of
  2. accounting period
  3. accounting periods
  4. accounting profit
  5. accounting profits
  6. accounting to
  7. accounting year
  8. accounting years
  9. accountingese
  10. accountings
  11. accountless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: accounting to (page history and authors); account to (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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