/əˈkaʊnt/
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Translation
Money that you keep at a bank, or a report of what happened.
Word origin
From Old French aconter, meaning to count or reckon, from Latin computare.
- Origin
- Old French
- Root
- aconter
- English cognates
- count, compute
Grammar
Gender
Pluralaccounts
Examples
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A bank account holds the money you keep at a bank.
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Here "account" means a report of what happened.
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"Accounts" is the plural form.
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