Meaning

• 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.

• A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal.

  "to keep one's account at the bank."

• A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.

  "No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena."

• A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.

  "Don't trouble yourself on my account."

• A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit.

• A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description.

  "An account of a battle."

• An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.

• Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.

• An authorization to use a service.

  "I've opened an account with Wikipedia so that I can contribute and partake in the project."

• A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.

• Profit; advantage.