account

[əˈkaʊnt]

Definition:
1. An arrangement that someone has with a bank, etc. to keep money there, take some out, etc.
2. The act of informing by verbal report.
3. A record or narrative description of past events.
4. A written or spoken description of something that has happened.

Use 'account' in a sentence:

1. Don't leave on my account.
2. Put it on my account please.
3. I'd like to check the balance in my account please.
4. What follows is an eye-witness account.
5. They charge the calls to their credit-card account.
6. Does the bank charge a fee for setting up the account?
7. Can we accept his account as the true version?
8. Can I draw $80 out of my account?
9. Account details are encrypted to protect privacy.
10. How much money is there in my account?
11. I opened a savings account at my local bank.
12. What is your account number, please?
13. On no account should the mixture boil.
14. $50 000 has been credited to your account.
15. The opening day of the battle was, nevertheless, accounted a success.
16. Your account has been credited with $50 000.
17. Does your current account pay interest?
18. Her account was a perversion of the truth.
19. She retired early on account of ill health.
20. Wine is radioactive but few people stop drinking it on that account.
21. Keeping the accounts is part and parcel of my job.
22. Her account was deliberately ambiguous.
23. She works with us in Accounts, for her sins!
24. She salted away the profits in foreign bank accounts.
25. The money will be debited from your account each month.
26. They had $96,000 in their escrow account.
27. How do you account for the show's success?
28. A newly-married couple, he thought, on account of their walking so close together.
29. This is, of necessity, a brief and incomplete account.
30. You can withdraw money from the account at any time without penalty.
31. The President declined to deliver the speech himself, on account of a sore throat.
32. The children gave a confused account of what had happened.
33. He's made a real dog's breakfast of these accounts.
34. Your account and hers do not correspond.
35. Ministers should be called to account for their actions.
36. He bought two bottles of vodka on account.
37. What's your account number please?
38. I told him if he withdrew it was on his own account.
39. Can I draw$ 80 out of my account?
40. She had plans to set up in business on her own account.
41. Her account makes interesting reading.
42. Mollie told me what she'd done and I was really scared on her account.
43. I'd like to pay some money into my account.
44. You need just one pound to open a bank account with us.
45. How can I transfer money from my bank account to his?
46. I want to keep my Swiss bank account open.
47. I don't have a bank account.
48. People often give very different accounts of the same event.
49. The agency has lost several of its most important accounts.
50. He gave us a very sketchy account of his visit.
51. You'll be paid by direct credit into your bank account.
52. The team gave a good account of themselves in the match.
53. I paid the cheque into my savings account.
54. Most large companies now use computers for accounting and housekeeping operations.
55. These obscure groups were of little account in national politics.
56. He worked his way up from messenger boy to account executive.
57. Your money would earn more in a high-interest account.
58. The defendant asked for 21 similar offences to be taken into account.
59. Your account of the accident does not agree with hers.
60. He was by his own account an ambitious workaholic.
61. Urban planners in practice have to take account of many interest groups in society.
62. She gave the police a full account of the incident.
63. Good financial accounts are vital to the success of any enterprise.
64. The cheque was drawn on his personal account.
65. Personal characteristics, such as age and sex are taken into account.
66. This account gives you instant access to your money.