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reckon with

reckon with verb: to settle accounts or claims with.

Verb

reckon with (third-person singular simple present reckons with, present participle reckoning with, simple past and past participle reckoned with)

  1. To settle accounts or claims with.
    • After a long time, the lord of those seruants commeth, and reckoneth with them.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 25:19
  2. To deal with.
    • We'll reckon with him after the deed is done.
    • If she lets you down, she'll have me to reckon with
  3. To take into account.
    • I didn't reckon with his stubbornness.
    • Swiss manufacturers reckon with the possibility of a contractless state with Germany. The Swiss public opinion is afraid that such a contractless state will lead to intolerable interferences of German authorities with Swiss economic life.1918, The Economist, volume 86, page 778

reckon with meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

reckon with in Tamil

கணக்கில் சேர்த்து

reckon with in Malayalam

contend with, deal with, face (up to)
കണക്കിലെടുക്കുക, കെെകാര്യം ചെയ്യുക, എതിരിടുക, നേരിടുക, അഭിമുഖീകരിക്കുക
take into consideration, take into account, bargain for
പരിഗണിക്കുക, കണക്കിലെടുക്കുക, പരിഗണനയിലെടുക്കുക, കണക്കാക്കുക, കണക്കിലാക്കുക, കണക്കിലുൾക്കൊള്ളിക്കുക

Forms of reckon with

third-person singular presentreckons with
present participlereckoning with
past participlereckoned with
pastreckoned with

Words formed from reckon with

Questions about reckon with

What does reckon with mean?
Reckon with means to settle accounts or claims with.
What is reckon with in Tamil?
Reckon with in Tamil is கணக்கில் சேர்த்து. See Reckon with meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is reckon with?
Reckon with is a verb.
What is the past tense of reckon with?
The past tense of reckon with is reckoned with.

Words near reckon with in the dictionary

  1. reckon for
  2. reckon on
  3. reckon out
  4. reckon up
  5. reckon upon
  6. reckon with
  7. reckon without
  8. reckon without one's host
  9. reckon'd
  10. reckonable
  11. reckoned

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: reckon with (page history and authors); reckon with (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); reckon with (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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