ACCOUNTS Synonyms: 260 Similar and Opposite Words

accounts 1 of 2

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

While 5 million Australian accounts had been deactivated, a substantial number of Australian children continued to retain accounts, create new accounts and pass platforms’ age assurance systems, the report said. —

ABC News, 31 Mar. 2026 Declining stock values during tax season, when more Americans than usual are checking retirement accounts, have compounded the sense of economic unease. —

Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026 Police have been monitoring social media accounts associated with both men for some time, according to court records. —

Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2026 Kid Rock posted the videos to his social media accounts on Saturday. —

Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026 The Roth advantage retirees are leaning into Roth accounts have gotten a lot of attention in recent years, and the retirement tax angle helps explain why. —

Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2026 Flow – Clean Air Edition is now available at the brewery and across more than 800 retail accounts statewide. —

Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Mar. 2026 Around that time, the State Department also paused student and exchange visitor visa interviews for three weeks, before ordering the vetting of social media accounts for all those seeking visas. —

Arkansas Online, 24 Mar. 2026 Boise Busted said its pages were suspended for 14 days and alleged that, when its accounts were restored, the Sheriff’s Office would submit another takedown notice to prompt another suspension. —

Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 23 Mar. 2026

Verb

In super-aged countries, such as Japan and Italy, the 65-and-over population now accounts for 25%-30% of the total population. —

John Rennie Short, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2026 The energy impact of this shift cannot be understated, particularly in a country that is the world’s biggest importer of fossil fuels, that maintains the world’s largest highway network, and where road freight accounts for nearly three-quarters of all freight by volume. —

Xiaoying You, semafor.com, 31 Mar. 2026 The region accounts for roughly a quarter of global polyethylene and polypropylene exports, according to S&P Global Energy data. —

Julian Torres, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2026 Speed accounts for nearly one-third of all traffic fatalities, according to officials. —

Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2026 According to Deloitte’s most recent Tech Trends report (covered by Fortune when it was released), IT accounts for roughly 93% of AI adoption budgets. —

Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026 The learn-to-skate sign ups are a significant metric, Farrell said, since membership in the federation accounts for between 30% to 40% of USFS revenues. —

Sara Germano, Sportico.com, 24 Mar. 2026 Tourism accounts for more than 20 percent of Hawai’i ’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and supports more than 200,000 jobs. —

Jen Murphy, Outside, 24 Mar. 2026 Air conditioning accounts for roughly 10 percent of global electricity consumption, and that figure is rising fast. —

Munis Raza, Interesting Engineering, 24 Mar. 2026

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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