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Definition of accounting : of Account

Synonyms:

business relationship, account statement, invoice, accountancy, method of accounting, bill, chronicle, story, account, accounting system, score, news report, write up, explanation, history, report

figuring, counting, dividing, determining, surmising, programming, studying, deducing, judging, gauging, measuring, supposing, weighing, systematizing, scheduling, estimating, planning, considering, thinking, rating, guessing, reckoning, calculating, scheming, presuming, multiplying, enumerating, approximating, assessing, plotting, concluding, adding, totaling, computing, triangulating, summing, scoring, ranking, inferring, quantizing, valuing, evaluating, tallying, appraising, quantifying

explaining, describing, explicating, justifying, rationalizing, clarifying

indexing, recording, archiving, inventorying, journalizing, chronicling, registering, clocking, noting, logging, minuting, cataloging

detailing, budgeting, itemizing, invoicing, checking, booking, recounting, filing, storing, summarizing, tabling, tabulating, collecting, documenting, digesting, auditing, listing

reporting, portraying, retelling, stating, telling, narrating

Usage examples:

• But from her letters seemed to issue to the inner ear of the laird a tone of oppression for which they gave him no means of accounting; while she said so little concerning her outward circumstances, hardly ever even alluding to her brother, that he could not but fear things did not go well with her at home. - "Warlock o' Glenwarlock", George MacDonald.
• Is there any mode of accounting for this, without supposing that women are naturally incapable of producing them? - "The Subjection of Women", John Stuart Mill.
• He was not in the least the sort of man she would have expected to do so, but there was no accounting for taste- masculine taste especially. - "The Way of an Eagle", Ethel M. Dell.