ACCOUNTS Synonyms: 260 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of account

as in chronologies

a relating of events usually in the order in which they happened newspaper reporters must strive to provide an accurate account of what happened

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as in versions

a presentation of an artistic work (as a piece of music) from a particular point of view the pianist gave an account of the sonata that revealed a very mature understanding of the work

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as in statements

a record of goods sold or services performed together with the costs due please add this meal to my restaurant account

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as in funds

a sum of money set aside for a particular purpose after paying the tuition, there was still money left for books in her special account for college expenses

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as in considerations

a careful weighing of the reasons for or against something take into account the potential problems that come with keeping a horse

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short shrifts

as in regards

a feeling of great approval and liking held her grandmother, a pioneer in aviation, in high account

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as in clients

a person who buys a product or uses a service from a business the company sends out holiday cards to all its accounts

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as in explanations

a statement given to explain a belief or act he could offer no credible account for why he had been absent from work for two hours

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as in reasons

something (as a belief) that serves as the basis for another thing for that account alone you should agree that the system needs overhauling

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accounts

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verb

present tense third-person singular of account

as in considers

to think of in a particular way account themselves lucky to be alive

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Recent Examples of accounts

Noun

Some users, like Stalter, are deleting their accounts and leaving the app altogether (though some have also had trouble deleting their accounts, Fiesler noted). —

Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 27 Jan. 2026 Video footage and eyewitness accounts have raised serious questions about the justification for lethal force. —

Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026 Change passwords for any accounts accessed while the extension was installed. —

Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 Jan. 2026 Donors can access their individual accounts by entering UGift codes L4R-R63 for Lincoln and T46-E6P for William, as explained in a post shared to Sara's page in the days after her death. —

Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 26 Jan. 2026 Many of them creep around on social media and almost certainly legions of them come from bot accounts on X. —

Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026 The cemetery has been thrust into the spotlight after a Lancaster County man was accused of harvesting sets of human remains in the middle of the night, hoarding skulls, bones, and corpses, and then offering some of them for sale on his social media accounts. —

Joe Holden, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2026 Here are some changes to tax-advantaged retirement accounts to be aware of, and important steps to take that can help reduce the tax impact on investments. —

Sharon Epperson, CNBC, 12 Jan. 2026 Hedren creates a vivid portrait of Sitting Bull by drawing on a vast array of sources, from interviews with Lakotas conducted by the military to twentieth-century accounts by survivors. —

The New Yorker, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026

Verb

Rare earths are vital for defense and the energy transition, but China accounts for about three-fifths of global mining and 91% of refined output, and, after a recent diplomatic spat, Beijing banned exports of some products to Japan. —

semafor.com, 3 Feb. 2026 The most coveted and lucrative market, young men 21-34, accounts for more than half of the bets placed on most sites. —

Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026 Bill Belichick accounts for six of those titles. —

Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026 Wellness travel now accounts for nearly 8 percent of global trips and is a $900 billion industry, with demand rising for retreats that prioritize rest and renewal. —

Madeline Weinfield, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2026 The system addresses a critical global challenge, as industrial heat production currently accounts for one-fifth of the world’s total energy consumption, with 80% of that demand still being met by fossil fuels like oil and gas. —

Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Feb. 2026 According to the press release, Eriksen's charges stemmed from four cybertips referred to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) over user accounts on the Kik online platform that had received and distributed Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). —

Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 31 Jan. 2026 Turn it on for email accounts first. —

Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 Jan. 2026 Congress has already approved six of its 12 annual spending bills, but the remaining funding accounts for 75% of all discretionary spending. —

David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 28 Jan. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for accounts

Noun

Plaintiff attorneys have built similar tools capable of producing polished demand letters, medical chronologies, and settlement ranges using massive legal datasets.

— Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
This requires a set of skills to interrogate the past by probing deeply, constructing and reconstructing chronologies, and contemplating counterfactuals in which different decisions might have significantly altered subsequent events.

— John T. Shaw, Twin Cities, 5 Nov. 2025