(accounting) 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.

(obsolete, transitive) To present an account of; to answer for, to justify. / (intransitive, now rare) To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc.

On behalf of the (monetary) account of; (idiomatic, originally figuratively) for the sake of. / (idiomatic) Because of, due to, owing to.

(colloquial) On account of the fact that: because, since.

plural of accountancy

plural of accounter

(transitive) To explain by relating circumstances; to show that some one, thing or members of a group are present or have been processed. / (transitive) To be the primary cause of

A person providing an account of events. / A person providing an accounting of expenditure or other actions.

In an accountable manner.

(US, Britain, colloquial) Of no value or merit; good-for-nothing; of no account.