| Main Entry: | accounting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | keeping financial accounts |
Synonyms: |
auditing, balancing the books, bookkeeping, calculating, computing, reckoning |
| Main Entry: | avail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be of use; use |
Synonyms: |
account, advantage, answer, be adequate, benefit, fill, fulfill, meet, profit, satisfy, serve, suffice, work |
| Main Entry: | calculate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | compute or estimate amount |
Synonyms: |
account, add, adjust, appraise, assay, cast, cipher, consider, count, determine, divide, dope out, enumerate, figure, forecast, foretell, gauge, guess, judge, keep tabs, measure, multiply, number, rate, reckon, size up, subtract, sum, take account of, tally, tot, tote up, value, weigh, work out |
| Main Entry: | class |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | categorize |
Synonyms: |
account, allot, appraise, assess, assign, assort, brand, classify, codify, consider, designate, divide, evaluate, gauge, grade, group, hold, identify, judge, mark, part, pigeonhole, rank, rate, reckon, regard, score, separate |
| Main Entry: | clerical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secretarial |
Synonyms: |
accounting, bookkeeping, clerkish, clerkly, office, pink collar, scribal, stenographic, subordinate, typing, white collar, written |
| Main Entry: | deem |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | regard, consider |
Synonyms: |
account, allow, appraise, assume, be afraid, believe, calculate, conceive, conjecture, credit, daresay, divine, esteem, estimate, expect, feel, guess, hold, imagine, judge, know, presume, reckon, sense, set store by, suppose, surmise, suspect, think, understand, view |
| Main Entry: | esteem |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | consider, believe |
Synonyms: |
account, calculate, deem, estimate, hold, judge, rate, reckon, regard, think, view |
Antonyms: |
deride, disbelieve, disregard, disrespect |
| Main Entry: | estimate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | guess, try to value |
Synonyms: |
account, appraise, assay, assess, believe, budget, calculate roughly, cast, cipher, class, classify, compute, conjecture, consider, count, decide, deduce, determine, enumerate, evaluate, examine, expect, figure, form opinion, gauge, guess, guesstimate, judge, look into, look upon, number, outline, plan, predict, prophesy, rank, rate, reason, reckon, regard, run over, scheme, set a figure, size up, sum, suppose, surmise, suspect, tax, think, think through |
| Notes: | estimate implies a calculation has been performed and it is on that basis that a judgment or valuation is being made, while estimation implies that an on-the-spot evaluation is being performed and that it is an opinion based on that evaluation; an estimate conveys a more reasoned or impersonal judgment than an estimation |
| Main Entry: | number |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | count, calculate |
Synonyms: |
account, add, add up, aggregate, amount, come, computer, count heads, count noses, count off, enumerate, estimate, figure in, figure out, include, keep tabs, numerate, reckon, run, run down, run into, run to, sum, take account of, tale, tally, tell, tick off, total, tote, tote up |
Antonyms: |
estimate, guess |
| Main Entry: | offset |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | counterbalance, compensate |
Synonyms: |
account, allow for, atone for, balance, be equivalent, cancel out, charge, counteract, counterpoise, counterpose, countervail, equal, equalize, equipoise, make amends, make up for, negate, neutralize, outweigh, recompense, redeem, requite, set off |