Reckon

['rek(ə)n] or ['rɛkən]

Definition

(verb.) take account of; 'You have to reckon with our opponents'; 'Count on the monsoon'.

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Definition

(v. t.) To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

(v. t.) To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.

(v. t.) To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.

(v. t.) To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause; as, I reckon he won't try that again.

(v. i.) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.

(v. i.) To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

Checker: Zelig

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Count, number, compute, calculate, enumerate, cast, cast up.[2]. Estimate, esteem, account, regard, repute.[3]. [Colloquial.] Think, conjecture, suppose, guess, believe.

Checker: Paulette

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Compute, calculate, count, regard, estimate, value, account, consider, argue,infer, judge

ANT:Miscompute, miscalculate, misestimate, misreckon

Typed by Garrett

Definition

v.t. to count: to place in the number or rank of: to esteem: to think believe.—v.i. to calculate: to charge to account: to make up accounts: to settle accounts (fol. by with): to count or rely (with on or upon): to have an impression: to think: to suppose.—ns. Reck′oner; Reck′oning an account of time: settlement of accounts &c.: charges for entertainment: standing as to rank: (naut.) a calculation of the ship's position: (B.) estimation: value.—Reckon for to be answerable for; Reckon on or upon to count or depend upon; Reckon without his host (see Host).—Day of reckoning the day when an account must be given and a settlement made: the judgment-day.

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