accounts
/əˈkaʊnts/
accounts is the plural of account.
accounts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of account.
Meaning of account
Noun
account (plural accounts)
- 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.
- The firm failed to file its accounts on time.
- A bank account.
- The money was refunded to her account.
- A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
- 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.2012 January, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2013, page 60
- Synonyms:
- accounting, explanation
- A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
- Don't trouble yourself on my account.
- A record of events; a relation or narrative.
- An account of a battle.
- Synonyms:
- narrative, narration, relation, recital, report, description, explanation
- An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
- To stand high in your account1623, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, act 3, scene 2
Phrases with accounts
- accounts of
- accounts to
- accounts for
- bank accounts
- book accounts
- cast accounts
- flex accounts
- flop accounts
- root accounts
- spam accounts
- time accounts
- user accounts
47 more phrasesFewer phrases
- wrap accounts
- debit accounts
- email accounts
- final accounts
- joint accounts
- share accounts
- smurf accounts
- stock accounts
- annual accounts
- burner accounts
- by all accounts
- charge accounts
- client accounts
- credit accounts
- shadow accounts
- accounts current
- accounts payable
- capital accounts
- current accounts
- deposit accounts
- expense accounts
- Flemish accounts
- gimmick accounts
- savings accounts
- sleeper accounts
- chart of accounts
- checking accounts
- chequing accounts
- customer accounts
- from all accounts
- suspense accounts
- charts of accounts
- accounts receivable
- adjustment accounts
- Swiss bank accounts
- settle accounts with
- settled accounts with
- settles accounts with
- statement of accounts
- time deposit accounts
- cast up one's accounts
- discretionary accounts
- settling accounts with
- casts up one's accounts
- casting up one's accounts
- short accounts make long friends
- that accounts for the milk in the coconut
Questions about accounts
- What is accounts the plural of?
- Accounts is the plural of account.
- How do you pronounce accounts?
- Accounts is pronounced /əˈkaʊnts/.
Words near accounts in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: accounts (page history and authors); account (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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