reckoning
Meaning of reckoning
verb
- To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
- To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
- To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
- To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause
I reckon he won't try that again.
- To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one's host
- To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
- To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
- The action of calculating or estimating something.
By that reckoning, it would take six weeks to go five miles.
- An opinion or judgement.
- A summing up or appraisal.
- The settlement of accounts, as between parties.
- The working out of consequences or retribution for one's actions.
- The bill (UK) or check (US), especially at an inn or tavern.
- Rank or status.
Information about reckoning
- The plural form of reckoning is: reckonings.
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Hyphenation of reckoning
reck-on-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- reckoning is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
reckoning synonyms
Meaning calculation:
calculation, computation, figuring
Meaning tally:
Meaning count:
count, counting, numeration, enumeration, tally
Meaning :
account, calculate, compute, enumerate, esteem, estimate, number, repute, value
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