ACCOUNTとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 acounte, from Anglo-Norman acunte (“account”), from Old French aconte, from aconter (“to reckon”), from Latin computō (“to sum up”).

名詞

account (plural accounts)

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]

   The firm failed to file its accounts on time.

2. (banking) A bank account.

   The money was refunded to her account.

   • 1910, Journal of the American Bankers Association Vol. XI, No. 1, American Bankers Association, page 3:

     The Pueblo bank has advised that the operator opened an account at that bank with currency, and a few days later withdrew the amount.

3. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.

   Synonyms: accounting, explanation

   • 2012 January, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 10 November 2013, page 60:

     Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.

   No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 16:2:

     Give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.

4. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.

   Don't trouble yourself on my account.

   on no account

   on every account

   on all accounts

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     […] who evidently a glutton for work, it struck him, was having a quiet forty winks for all intents and purposes on his own private account while Dublin slept.

5. A record of events; a relation or narrative. [from c. 1610]

   Synonyms: narrative, narration, relation, recital, report, description, explanation

   An account of a battle.

   • 1657, Jam. Howel [i.e., James Howell], Londinopolis; an Historicall Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London, the Imperial Chamber, and Chief Emporium of Great Britain: […], London: […] J[ohn] Streater, for Henry Twiford, George Sawbridge, Thomas Dring, and John Place, […], →OCLC:

     A laudible account of the city of London.

   • 1920, Carl D. Buck, “Hittite an Indo-European Language?”, in Classical Philology, volume 15, number 2, →DOI, page 185:

     The study of the main body of Hittite texts was intrusted to the Austrian scholar Hrozny, who in 1915 published a preliminary account of his results […]

   • 1991, Thomas Lawton, A Time of Transition: Two Collectors of Chinese Art‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 63:

     According to one published account, said to be based on information provided by foreign missionaries in Chungking, whose reaction may have been influenced by the excesses of the Boxer Rebellion just a few years earlier, Tuan-fang was killed by his own soldiers at Tzu-chou, Shensi province.

   • 2000, Yunzhong Shu, chapter 2, in Buglers on the Home Front: The Wartime Practice of the Qiyue School, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 58:

     In a lapidary style, Qiu Dongping clearly and forcefully describes battlefield actions with simple sentences, giving a blow-by-blow account of successive events with neither understatement nor exaggeration.

6. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, act 3, scene 2:

     To stand high in your account

7. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
   • 1725, Homer, “Book XIV”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, footnote, page 235:

     There is a peculiarity in Homer's manner of apoſtrophizing Eumæus, and ſpeaking of him in the ſecond perſon; it is generally apply'd by that Poet only to men of account and diſtinction, and by it the Poet, as it were, addreſſes them with reſpect; […]

8. Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.

   Synonyms: membership, registration

   Meronym: username

   Since the system outage, I've been unable to log in to my account.

   • 2000, Sean Mooney, 5,110 Days in Tokyo and Everything's Hunky-dory, page 66:

     In these cases, the agency has to buy through another ad agency that has an account with the media vehicle in question.

   • 2002, Whizkids Data Creation:

     For example, to register an account with Hotmail, you should type www.hotmail.com on the Address bar of your browser to go to the Hotmail e-mail service WEB page.

   • 2006, Michael Miller, Choosing an Online Payment Service:

     While the buyer might have to create an account with the online payment service, this account is free; the account exists only to facilitate future transactions, since the buyer's address and payment information doesn't have to be re-entered for each new transaction.

   • 2009, Jason Rich, Design and Launch an Online Web Design Business in a Week, page 223:

     Depending on the shipping options you plan to offer to your customers, you'll probably need to open shipping accounts with FedEx, UPS, and perhaps other couriers as well.

   • 2014, Brad Miser, My iPhone (Covers iOS 8 on iPhone 6/6 Plus, 5S/5C/5, and 4S), page 71:

     Of course, to use iCloud on your iPhone, you need to have an iCloud account.

9. (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     It seems that this severity weakened his frame, for three years syne come Martinmas he was taken ill with a fever of the bowels, and after a week's sickness he went to his account, where I trust he is accepted.

10. (uncountable) Profit; advantage.

    The young man soon turned his woodworking skills to some account.

    • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput):

      I removed from the Old Jewry to Fetter Lane, and from thence to Wapping, hoping to get business among the sailors; but it would not turn to account.

使用する際の注意点

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

派生語

派生した語

• → Bulgarian: ака́унт (akáunt)
• → Japanese: アカウント (akaunto)
• → Malay: akaun
• → Pohnpeian: akaund
• → Russian: аккаунт (akkaunt)
• → Swahili: akaunti

語源 2

From Old French acounter, accomptere et al., from a- + conter (“to count”)). Compare count.

動詞

account (third-person singular simple present accounts, present participle accounting, simple past and past participle accounted)

1. To provide explanation.
   1. (obsolete, transitive) To present an account of; to answer for, to justify. [14th–17th c.]
   2. (intransitive, now rare) To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc. [from 14th c.]
   3. (transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described). [from 14th c.]

      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:deem

      • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 8, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):

        The Pagan Hercules, why was he accounted a hero?

   4. (intransitive) To consider that. [from 14th c.]
      • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 11:19:

        Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.

   5. (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc. [from 15th c.]

      An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.

   6. (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for. [from 16th c.]

      We must account for the use of our opportunities.

   7. (intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain. [from 16th c.]

      Idleness accounts for poverty.

      • 2025 February 14, Heather Westwood, Will Mandy, Rebecca Brewer, “The Relationship Between Interoception, Alexithymia, Autistic Traits and Eating Pathology in Autistic Adults”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders‎, →DOI:

        While the overall model was invariant across groups, the direct relationship between atypical eating (not driven by weight/shape) and ED pathology was only significant in the autistic group. Therefore, while body image appears to contribute to ED pathology in autistic adults, atypical eating may represent an additional unique risk factor for ED pathology. While the correlational nature of this study precludes inferences about causality, the combination of atypical eating and body image dissatisfaction may partially account for elevated ED pathology in autism.

   8. (intransitive) To establish the location for someone. [from 19th c.]

      After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for.

   9. (intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for). [from 19th c.]
      • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 45, in Vanity Fair:

        Desperately bold at last, the persecuted animals bolted above-ground—the terrier accounted for one, the keeper for another; Rawdon, from flurry and excitement, missed his rat, but on the other hand he half-murdered a ferret.

2. To count.
   1. (transitive, now rare) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time). [from 14th c.]
      • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

        neither the motion of the Moon, whereby moneths are computed; nor of the Sun, whereby years are accounted, consisteth of whole numbers, but admits of fractions, and broken parts, as we have already declared concerning the Moon.

   2. (obsolete) To count (up), enumerate. [14th–17th c.]
   3. (obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.). [14th–16th c.]
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

        Long worke it were / Here to account the endlesse progeny / Of all the weeds that bud and blossome there [...].

3. Used in phrasal verbs: account for, account of, account to.

Conjugation

派生語

関連する語

• accountable
• accountant

Further reading

• account on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• account (bookkeeping) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “account”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “account”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.