Accounting
[ə'kaʊntɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) a system that provides quantitative information about finances.
(noun.) a convincing explanation that reveals basic causes; 'he was unable to give a clear accounting for his actions'.
(noun.) a bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts.
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Account
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Examples
- But there is no accounting for these things. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In the end, however, the complainant had nothing to show for all his struggle, as the master who made the accounting set the damages at one dollar! Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Polly and I were clinging to that hypothesis as the most lenient way of accounting for your eccentricity. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Besides accounting for old experimental results it suggests new lines of work and even enables one to predict the outcome of further investigation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Without accounting for transport. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There--I have saved you the trouble of accounting for it; and really, all things considered, I begin to think it perfectly reasonable. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I know a gentleman who was fond of accounting for everything in a philosophical way. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- This is the nearest approach that any theory of mine can make towards accounting for a result which was visible matter of fact. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Here you have my method of accounting for the principal phenomena, which I submit to your candid examination. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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