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acct

acct is the abbreviation of account.

acct is the abbreviation of accountant.

Meaning of account

Noun

account (plural accounts)

  1. 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.
  2. A bank account.
    • The money was refunded to her account.
  3. 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
  4. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
    • Don't trouble yourself on my account.
  5. A record of events; a relation or narrative.
    • An account of a battle.
  6. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
    • To stand high in your account1623, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, act 3, scene 2

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Meaning of accountant

Noun

accountant (plural accountants)

  1. One who renders account; one accountable.
  2. A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s).
  3. One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
  4. One whose profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another. The records are usually, but not always, financial records.
    • Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis
      When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this
      50-inch screen, money-green leather sofa
      Got two rides, a limousine with a chauffeur
      Phone bill about two G's flat
      No need to worry, my accountant handles that
      And my whole crew is loungin'
      Celebratin' every day, no...1994, 2:40 from the start, in Juicy (Hip Hop), spoken by The Notorious B.I.G.
  5. (euphemistic) A sex worker, particularly one who does not want to be publicized as one.

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Forms of acct

pluralaccts

Questions about acct

What is acct the abbreviation of?
Acct is the abbreviation of account.

Words near acct in the dictionary

  1. accruing
  2. accruings
  3. accrument
  4. accruments
  5. ACCs
  6. acct
  7. acct.
  8. acctg.
  9. accts
  10. acctually
  11. accually

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Adapted from Wiktionary: acct (page history and authors); account (page history and authors); accountant (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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