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Accounted əˈkaʊnt Account English Accounting Verb Bre Law
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BrE / əˈkaʊnt / NAmE / əˈkaʊnt / |
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- in english law a person is accounted innocent until they are proved guilty.
- the event was accounted a success.
- she thinks he's wonderful—oh well, there's no accounting for taste.
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account(verb)BrE / əˈkaʊnt / NAmE / əˈkaʊnt / - to have the opinion that somebody/something is a particular thing
- In English law a person is accounted innocent until they are proved guilty.
- The event was accounted a success.
- used to say how difficult it is to understand why somebody likes somebody/something that you do not like at all
- She thinks he's wonderful—oh well, there's no accounting for taste.
Verb Forms- present simple I / you / we / they account
- he / she / it accounts
- past simple accounted
- past participle accounted
- -ing form accounting
Word Origin- Middle English (in the sense ‘counting’, ‘to count’): from Old French acont (noun), aconter (verb), based on conter ‘to count’.
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