(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
If you have an ~ with a bank or a similar organization, you have an arrangement to leave your money there and take some out when you need it.
Some banks make it difficult to open an ~...
I had two ~s with Natwest, a savings ~ and a current ~.
N-COUNT
2.
In business, a regular customer of a company can be referred to as an ~, especially when the customer is another company. (BUSINESS)
Biggart Donald, the Glasgow-based marketing agency, has won two Edinburgh ~s.
N-COUNT
3.
Accounts are detailed records of all the money that a person or business receives and spends. (BUSINESS)
He kept detailed ~s.
...an ~ book.
N-COUNT: usu pl
4.
An ~ is a written or spoken report of something that has happened.
He gave a detailed ~ of what happened on the fateful night...
= report
N-COUNT: with supp, usu N of n
5.
see also ~ing , bank ~ , current ~ , deposit ~ , joint
6.
If you say that something is true by all ~s or from all ~s, you believe it is true because other people say so.
He is, by all ~s, a superb teacher.
PHRASE: PHR with cl
7.
If you say that someone gave a good ~ of themselves in a particular situation, you mean that they performed well, although they may not have been completely successful.
The team fought hard and gave a good ~ of themselves.
PHRASE: V inflects
8.
If you say that something is of no ~ or of little ~, you mean that it is very unimportant and is not worth considering. (FORMAL)
These obscure groups were of little ~ in national politics.
PHRASE: v-link PHR
9.
If you buy or pay for something on ~, you pay nothing or only part of the cost at first, and pay the rest later.
He bought two bottles of vodka on ~.
PHRASE: PHR after v
10.
You use on ~ of to introduce the reason or explanation for something.
The President declined to deliver the speech himself, on ~ of a sore throat...
PREP-PHRASE
11.
Your feelings on someone’s ~ are the feelings you have about what they have experienced or might experience, especially when you imagine yourself to be in their situation.
Mollie told me what she’d done and I was really scared on her ~.
PHRASE: usu adj/n PHR
12.
If you tell someone not to do something on your ~, you mean that they should do it only if they want to, and not because they think it will please you. (SPOKEN)
Don’t leave on my ~.
PHRASE: PHR after v
13.
If you say that something should on no ~ be done, you are emphasizing that it should not be done under any circumstances.
On no ~ should the mixture boil.
PHRASE emphasis
14.
If you do something on your own ~, you do it because you want to and without being asked, and you take responsibility for your own action.
I told him if he withdrew it was on his own ~.
PHRASE: PHR after v
15.
If you take something into ~, or take ~ of something, you consider it when you are thinking about a situation or deciding what to do.
The defendant asked for 21 similar offences to be taken into ~...
Urban planners in practice have to take ~ of many interest groups in society.
= consider
PHRASE: V inflects
16.
If someone is called, held, or brought to ~ for something they have done wrong, they are made to explain why they did it, and are often criticized or punished for it.
Ministers should be called to ~ for their actions.
PHRASE: V inflects, oft PHR for n