Account vs Purchase - What's the difference?
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(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
(banking) A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal.
A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
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A reason, grounds, consideration, motive.
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(business) A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit.
A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description
* (rfdate) A laudable account of the city of London. - Howell
A statement explaining one's conduct.
* (rfdate) Give an account of thy stewardship. - Luke 16:2
An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
* (rfdate) To stand high in your account - Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, III-ii
Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
* (rfdate) Men of account -
* (rfdate) To turn to account - Shakespeare
An authorization to use a service.
(archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
Profit; advantage.
to provide explanation
# (obsolete) To present an account of; to answer for, to justify.
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# To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
#* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), , III.8:
# To consider (that).
#* 1611 , Bible , Authorized (King James) Version, Hebrews XI.19:
# To give a satisfactory evaluation (for) financial transactions, money received etc.
# To give a satisfactory evaluation (for) (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer (for).
# To give a satisfactory reason (for); to explain.
# To establish the location (for) someone.
# To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ (for)).
to count
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#* 1646 , (Sir Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica :
# (obsolete) To count (up), enumerate.
# (obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.).
#* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.6:
(obsolete) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)
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An individual item one has purchased.
The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
(uncountable) Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.
The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and in nautical terminology the ratio of such a device, like a pulley, or block and tackle.
(rock climbing, uncountable) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.
(legal, dated) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
* Shakespeare
To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
* Shakespeare
To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase' upon, or apply a ' purchase to.
To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
* Ld. Berners
To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.
As nouns the difference between account and purchase
is that account is (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 while purchase is (obsolete) the act or process of seeking and obtaining something (eg property, etc).As verbs the difference between account and purchase
is that account is to provide explanation while purchase is to pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.account
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Etymology 1
* First attested around 1300. ((reckoning of moneys received and paid)) * (banking) First attested in 1833. * (narration) First attested in the 1610's. * From (etyl), from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- to keep one's account at the bank.
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- No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena.
- on no account
- on every account
- on all accounts
- ...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.
- An account of a battle.
- I've opened an account with Wikipedia so that I can contribute and partake in the project.
Usage notes
* Abbreviations: (business) * of 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.Quotations
* (English Citations of "account")Synonyms
* (registry of pecuniary transactions) * (statement of occurrences) narrative, narration, relation, recital, description, explanation * (a statement of reasons) accounting, explanation * (a reason) * (a vindication) defense, excuse, explanation * (estimate) * * (authorization to use a service) membership, registration, usernameDerived terms
(Financial terms) * account balance * account book * account code * account executive * account number * account payable * account receivable * account stated * active account * bank account * book account * capital account * cash account * cast accounts * charge account * checking account * concentration account * control account * credit account * current account * custodial account * deferred account * deposit account * discretionary account * dormant account * drawing account * escrow account * expense account * final account * frozen account * general account * giro account * house account * insured account * joint account * managed account * margin account * merchant account * mixed account * money of account * nostro account * NOW account * numbered account * omnibus account * open account * option account * overdraft checking account * pension account * profit and loss account * reserved account * restricted account * retirement account * savings account * separate account * share premium account * suspense account * sweep account * trading account * transaction account * trust account * trustee account * undermargined account * undivided account * valuation account * vostro account * western account * wrap account * zero-balance account (Non-financial terms) * account current: a running or continued account between two or more parties, or a statement of the particulars of such an account * call to account * cast up one's accounts * hold to account * in account with: in a relation requiring an account to be kept * no-account * on account of: for the sake of; by reason of; because of * on no account * on one's own account: for one's own interest or behalf * make account: (Obsolete): to have an opinion or expectation; to reckon * make account of: to hold in estimation; to esteem; as, he makes' small ' account of beauty * shell account * short account * take account of, or take into account: to take into consideration; to notice * 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 - Cowell * take into account * theoretical accountEtymology 2
From (etyl) acounter, (accomptere) et al., (etyl) aconter, (acompter), from (a-) + . Compare (count).Verb
(en verb)- The Pagan Hercules, why was he accounted a hero?
- Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
- An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
- We must account for the use of our opportunities.
- Idleness accounts for poverty.
- After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for.
- 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.
- Long worke it were / Here to account the endlesse progeny / Of all the weeds that bud and blossome there [...].
Derived terms
* account for * account ofStatistics
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Noun
- I'll get meat to have thee, / Or lose my life in the purchase .
- They offer a free hamburger with the purchase of a drink.
- He was pleased with his latest purchase .
- It is hard to get purchase on a nail without a pry bar or hammer.
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Derived terms
* purchase order * repurchaseVerb
(purchas)- that loves the thing he cannot purchase
- Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.
- His faults hereditary / Rather than purchased .
- to purchase''' land'', ''to '''purchase a house
- to purchase favor with flattery
- One poor retiring minute / Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends.
- Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.
- to purchase a cannon
- Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage.
- ''Many aristocratic refugees' portable treasures purchased their safe passage and comfortable exile during the revolution
