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An Account

  1. (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. [from c. 1300]
  2. (banking) A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal. [from 1833]
  3. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
  4. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
  5. (business) A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit.
  6. A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description. [from c. 1610]
  7. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
  8. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
  9. An authorization to use a service.
  10. (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
  11. Profit; advantage.
Usage notes

Abbreviations: (business): A/C, a/c, acct., acc.

of Account, narrative, narration, recital. These words are applied to different modes of rehearsing a series of events

Account turns attention not so much to the speaker as to the fact related, and more properly applies to the report of some single event, or a group of incidents taken as whole; as, an account of a battle, of a shipwreck, etc.

A narrative is a continuous story of connected incidents, such as one friend might tell to another; as, a narrative of the events of a siege, a narrative of one's life, etc.

Narration is usually the same as narrative, but is sometimes used to describe the mode of relating events; as, his powers of narration are uncommonly great.

Recital denotes a series of events drawn out into minute particulars, usually expressing something which peculiarly interests the feelings of the speaker; as, the recital of one's wrongs, disappointments, sufferings, etc.

Synonyms

(registry of pecuniary transactions):

(statement of occurrences): narrative, narration, relation, recital, description, explanation

(a statement of reasons): accounting, explanation

(a reason):

(a vindication): defense, excuse, explanation

(estimate):

(value, importance):

(authorization to use a service): membership, registration, username