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Take into account   /teɪk ɪntˈu əkˈaʊnt/   Listen
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Account  n.  
1.
A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time. "A beggarly account of empty boxes."
2.
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; as, to keep one's account at the bank.
3.
A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.
4.
A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle. "A laudable account of the city of London."
5.
A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon. "Give an account of thy stewardship."
6.
An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment. "To stand high in your account."
7.
Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit. "Men of account." "To turn to account."
Account current, a running or continued account between two or more parties, or a statement of the particulars of such an account.
In account with, in a relation requiring an account to be kept.
On account of, for the sake of; by reason of; because of.
On one's own account, for one's own interest or behalf.
To make account, to have an opinion or expectation; to reckon. (Obs.) "This other part... makes account to find no slender arguments for this assertion out of those very scriptures which are commonly urged against it."
To make account of, to hold in estimation; to esteem; as, he makes small account of beauty.
To take account of, or to take into account, to take into consideration; to notice. "Of their doings, God takes no account.".
A writ of account (Law), a writ which the plaintiff brings demanding that the defendant shall render his just account, or show good cause to the contrary; called also an action of account.
Synonyms: Narrative; narration; relation; recital; description; explanation; rehearsal. 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.





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"Take into account" Quotes from Famous Books



... little kiosk, of the scent of heated asphalt—and the memory of the least of these enchantments brought infinite peace to his soul. The inhabitant of Paris has one great blessing, which he does not take into account until he suffers from its loss—one great half of his existence is filled up without the least trouble to himself. The all-potent vitality which ceaselessly envelops him takes away from him in a vast degree the exertion of amusing himself. The roar of the city, ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... I suppose. That doesn't take into account little things like patriotism and heroism, does it? Tell me, have you actually ever admired—really got a thrill out of— any deed ...
— The Unspeakable Perk • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... find myself in a difficulty. We have been but too learned already, and now we run the risk of becoming still more so, if we commence an attack on the three primary divisions which follow the vertebrates. We shall have to encounter terrible names and tedious details, besides having to take into account a thousand things of which we have not yet spoken. We are going on quietly with the history of the feeding machine which occupies the middle of the body, and learned men never looked in that direction for the establishment of their divisions; between ourselves, it ...
— The History of a Mouthful of Bread - And its effect on the organization of men and animals • Jean Mace
... to make a kingdom which might act as a buffer between France and the rest of Europe; and to this end they decreed that Belgium and Holland should be one. But in doing this, the statesmen or politicians concerned failed to take into account certain factors and facts which must inevitably, in the course of time, undermine their arrangements. Nations cannot be arbitrarily manufactured to suit the convenience of others. There is a chemistry in nationalities which has laws of its ...
— Holland - The History of the Netherlands • Thomas Colley Grattan
... commodious and desirable refuge to the outwandering American family which then first proved them. The fragmentary outwanderers who now visited London, after an absence of twenty-two years, did not take into account the fact that their apartment of long ago was the fine event of the search, prolonged for weeks, of two friends, singularly intelligent and rarely versed in London; they took it as a type, and expected to drive directly to its fellow. They ...
— London Films • W.D. Howells


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