account
verb/əˈkaʊnt/
/əˈkaʊnt/
[usually passive] (formal)Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they account | /əˈkaʊnt/ /əˈkaʊnt/ |
| he / she / it accounts | /əˈkaʊnts/ /əˈkaʊnts/ |
| past simple accounted | /əˈkaʊntɪd/ /əˈkaʊntɪd/ |
| past participle accounted | /əˈkaʊntɪd/ /əˈkaʊntɪd/ |
| -ing form accounting | /əˈkaʊntɪŋ/ /əˈkaʊntɪŋ/ |
- to have the opinion that somebody/something is a particular thing
- be accounted + adj. In English law a person is accounted innocent until they are proved guilty.
- be accounted + noun The event was accounted a success.
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘counting’, ‘to count’): from Old French acont (noun), aconter (verb), based on conter ‘to count’.
Idioms
See account in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee account in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishthere’s no accounting for taste
- (saying) used to say how difficult it is to understand why somebody likes somebody/something that you do not like at all
- They think it's wonderful—oh well, there's no accounting for taste.
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