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| Main Entry: |
reckon
 [rek-uhn] 
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | add up; evaluate |
| Synonyms: | account, appraise, approximate, calculate, call, cast, cipher, compute, conjecture, consider, count, count heads, count noses, deem, enumerate, esteem, estimate, figure, figure out, foot, gauge, guess, hold, judge, keep tabs, look upon, number, place, put, rate, regard, run down, square, sum, surmise, take account of, tally, think of, tick off, tot, tot up, total, tote, tote up, view |
| Antonyms: | neglect, subtract |
| Main Entry: | reckoning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | computation, account |
| Synonyms: | IOU, adding, addition, arithmetic, bad news, bill, calculation, charge, check, ciphering, cost, count, counting, debt, due, estimate, estimation, fee, figuring, grunt*, invoice, score, settlement, statement, summation, tab, working |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | account |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | record of finances, fees, or charges |
| Synonyms: | IOU, bad news, balance, bill, book, books, charge, check, computation, cuff, grunt*, inventory, invoice, ledger, reckoning, record, register, report, score, statement, tab, tally |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Example Sentences
- It's that moment of reckoning that tells them the value of the object.
- The end of impunity is coming to an end and the moment of reckoning closer.
- Our day of reckoning will ultimately follow, however.
| Main Entry: | accounting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | keeping financial accounts |
| Synonyms: | auditing, balancing the books, bookkeeping, calculating, computing, reckoning |
| Main Entry: | add |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | simple arithmetical process of increase; accumulation |
| Synonyms: | calculate, cast, compute, count, count up, do addition, enumerate, figure, reckon, reckon up, sum, summate, tally, tot, tot up, total, tote |
| Notes: | ad is short for advertisement while add means 'to join or unite' so as to increase in size, quantity, quality, or scope |
| Antonyms: | subtract |
| Main Entry: | addition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arithmetical process of augmentation |
| Synonyms: | accretion, accruing, adding, computing, counting, enlarging, expanding, increasing, reckoning, summation, summing, tabulating, totaling, toting |
| Antonyms: | subtraction |
| Main Entry: | appraisal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | judgment, estimation |
| Synonyms: | appraisement, assessment, estimate, evaluation, opinion, pricing, rating, reckoning, stock, survey, valuation |
| Main Entry: | arithmetic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mathematics |
| Synonyms: | addition, calculation, computation, division, estimation, figuring, multiplication, reckoning, subtraction |
| Main Entry: | assess |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | evaluate, determine |
| Synonyms: | appraise, apprise, assay, check out*, check*, compute, determine, dig it, estimate, figure*, fix, gauge, guess, judge, nick, peg, rate, reckon, set, size up, size*, survey, take measure, valuate, value, weigh |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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