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reaccount

reaccount verb: to update financial accounts.

Verb

reaccount (third-person singular simple present reaccounts, present participle reaccounting, simple past and past participle reaccounted)

  1. To update financial accounts.
    • The present action was brought by the heirs against the administrator Stone, his sureties and the purchasers of the land, asking that the sales of the land be set aside upon the ground that the decree of sale was void because the plaintiffs had not been served with process so as to make them...1915, J. K. Roberts, Daniel Woolsey Crockett, Kentucky Opinions
    • Briefly stated, they are: (1) Whether the company may now reaccount for interest during construction and add to cost of plant amounts for interest during construction not previously charged; (2) Whether the company may now reaccount for the administrative and general expenses previously charged to...1939, United States. Federal Power Commission, Opinions and Decisions of the Federal Power Commission
  2. To explain or describe again.
    • There seems to be no question that the apostolic charisma that shone on the foreheads of those who gathered centuries ago in the Upper Room have reappeared in other forms from time to time in the history of the Church. There is no need to reaccount all of them here.1952, Annals of Saint Joseph - Volume 65, page 102
    • At any point in time behavior has meaning only to the extent that it can be reaccounted and interpreted in light of present circumstances.1980, Edward A. Mabry, Richard E. Barnes, The Dynamics of Small Group Communication, page 87

Forms of reaccount

third-person singular presentreaccounts
present participlereaccounting
past participlereaccounted
pastreaccounted

Origin of reaccount

From re- + account.

Questions about reaccount

What does reaccount mean?
Reaccount means to update financial accounts.
What part of speech is reaccount?
Reaccount is a verb.
What is the past tense of reaccount?
The past tense of reaccount is reaccounted.

Words near reaccount in the dictionary

  1. reaccomplishments
  2. reaccord
  3. reaccorded
  4. reaccording
  5. reaccords
  6. reaccount
  7. reaccounted
  8. reaccounting
  9. reaccounts
  10. reaccredit
  11. reaccreditation

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