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  • noun Plural form of account.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of account.

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Examples

  • Significantly, the range of vessel forms Earthy identifies virtually mirrors not only the "Iron Age" pottery of the southeastern lowlands, but the vessels described and pictured in accounts from the 1960s and 1970s for a somewhat narrower area whose inhabitants include people of Tsonga, Chopi, Venda, Lemba, and Sotho origin.

    Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

  • While the label accounts for only 17 percent of the company's consolidated revenue, it made up for almost half of its partnered brands division, which includes such labels as its licensed DKNY jeans and Dana Buchman clothing line.

    Newsvine - Get Smarter Here 2009

  • While the label accounts for only 17 percent of the company's consolidated revenue, it made up for almost half of its partnered brands division, which includes such labels as its licensed DKNY jeans and Dana Buchman clothing line.

    Newsvine - Get Smarter Here 2009

  • I suppose doing the accounts is my least favourite part - but I don't think I'm alone there.

    August 2007 2007

  • I suppose doing the accounts is my least favourite part - but I don't think I'm alone there.

    EirePreneurZ: An interview with Barbara Molloy of Pickapro.ie 2007

  • Jenny Morgan was doing up the hieroglyphics which she called her accounts; she answered sharply enough, but it was a permission to enter, and Ruth was thankful for it.

    Ruth Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • At the end of the 1Q'11 the company had cash balances of MXN546 million, financial subsidiary's short term accounts receivable of MXN2.267 billion, approximately MXN3 billion of available non-committed credit lines and total debt of MXN$2.255 billion, of which 46% is short term.

    unknown title 2011

  • Real silence, by all accounts, is an unpleasant sensation.

    The disquieting sound of The Great White Silence Pascal Wyse 2010

  • Spain remains one of the best performers amongst euro-zone 'peripherals' and demand from foreign accounts is very strong as investors are taking advantage of the good yield pick-up, said Newedge Strategy.

    European Stocks Nudge Higher Ishaq Siddiqi 2010

  • Representing about one-fifth of the $2.6 trillion savers have in CDs, the shift from investments that offer a fixed rate of return over a specific time period to near-zero-yielding money market accounts is a reflection of the dour economy and the fear and uncertainty that it breeds, analysts said.

    Unemployment, Economy Forcing Savers To Give Up $5 Billion A Year The Huffington Post News Team 2010

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