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on account

on account prepositional phrase: as something to be reckoned up as part of final payments; on credit.

Prepositional phrase

  1. As something to be reckoned up as part of final payments; on credit.
    • And, could you—you don't mind a bit on account to go on with, do you? I'm not exactly what you'd call up and in just at the moment."1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London

Conjunction

on account

  1. (colloquial) On account of the fact that; because.
    • Take your three days off, Mr. Barlow, only don't expect to be paid for them on account you're thinking up some fancy ideas.1948, Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
    • ‘Well, we come on this pisswater river, running high on account there'd been rains.’1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 466

on account meaning in Tamil

on account in Tamil

கணக்கில்

Synonyms of on account

Questions about on account

What does on account mean?
On account means as something to be reckoned up as part of final payments; on credit.
What is on account in Tamil?
On account in Tamil is கணக்கில். See On account meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is on account?
On account can be a prepositional phrase or a conjunction.

Words near on account in the dictionary

  1. on a whim
  2. on a wing and a prayer
  3. on a wonder
  4. on about
  5. on accident
  6. on account
  7. on account of
  8. on acid
  9. on again off again
  10. on again, off again
  11. on air

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Adapted from Wiktionary: on account (page history and authors); on account (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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