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

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 Shoppers initially only can make payments through the cards linked to their Google accounts but soon will be able to make purchases using PayPal, the company said. —

Anne D’innocenzio, Los Angeles Times, 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 By all accounts, Charli lives in windbreakers and teddies. —

Alice Newbold, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2026 While that bill is stalled in Congress, a study released Monday on possible impacts from the Electronic Payments Coalition found that a 10% cap on rates would mean that card issuers would close accounts for nearly 90% of current users, or 175 million Americans. —

Hugh Son, CNBC, 12 Jan. 2026 During inquiries, the ICO found 178 active email accounts using passwords identical or similar to those set by the organization’s IT desk when the account was activated. —

Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025 But tipping today has also become a source of tension, according to many accounts. —

Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 9 Nov. 2025 This is no small feat given that the criminals’ bank accounts and arsenals are fed with narco-dollars by tens of millions of cocaine users in the West. —

Gustavo Petro, Time, 9 Nov. 2025

Verb

That includes full-time, part-time, and seasonal workers, and accounts for absenteeism resulting from sick leave, parental leave, vacation time, statutory holidays, illness, injury, and even bad weather and labour disputes. —

Joe O’Connor, Time, 13 Jan. 2026 The Avatar trilogy, in which Saldaña has played the central Na'vi character Neytiri, of course accounts for a massive part of her cume — about $6 billion to be exact. —

Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Jan. 2026 To some extent, that’s what accounts for so much of the exhilarated anticipation around his return. —

Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2026 Since then, its use has surged in the United States, and today, IVF accounts for almost 100,000 births each year. —

Janet W. Lee, NPR, 12 Jan. 2026 Most accounts with credit scores below 740 would be shut, the study claimed. —

Hugh Son, CNBC, 12 Jan. 2026 South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that the software tool accounts for both the Moon’s weaker gravity and its journey through space to keep its clock perfectly aligned with Earth’s. —

Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 Jan. 2026 Many lawmakers also use their ballot measure accounts to pay political consulting fees. —

Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 11 Jan. 2026 Chen Mengjie, head of German Operations, revealed that overseas business now accounts for 50 percent of Style3D’s total sales, illustrating the company’s rapid international expansion. —

Li Jun, Footwear News, 11 Jan. 2026

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Noun

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

Definition of chronologies