noun

1. 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.

2. A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal.

   “to keep one's account at the bank.”

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

   “No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena.”

Synonyms: accounting, explanation, defense, excuse, explanation, membership, registration, username