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Accounted əˈkaʊnt Account English Accounting Verb Bre Law

Word account
WordType (verb)
Phonetic BrE / əˈkaʊnt / NAmE / əˈkaʊnt /
Example
  • 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 /
  1. 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.
  2. 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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