"Account" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

A detailed statement of the mutual demands in the nature of debt and credit between parties, arising out of con

A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of
transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an
account of a battle.

To render an account; to answer in judgment; -- with
for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.

A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed
statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other
things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at
the bank.

To recount; to relate.

To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to
explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.

To render or receive an account or relation of
particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for
money received.

A statement and explanation or vindication of one's
conduct with reference to judgment thereon.

To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or
consider; to deem.

An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a
record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc.,
explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given
of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason,
ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every
account, on all accounts.

Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.

To reckon; to compute; to count.

To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to
assign; -- with to.