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Reckon is something you believe or decide after thinking about it for a while.

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An example of reckon is when you decide that someone is guity of a crime.

See reckon in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb

to count; figure up; compute
1. to consider as; regard as being: reckon them friends
2. to judge; consider; estimate
Informal, Dialectal to think; suppose

Origin: ME rekkenen < OE -recenian, akin to Ger rechnen, to count < IE base *reĝ-, to put in order, straight > right, L regere, to rule

intransitive verb

to count up; figure
Informal to depend or rely (on): reckoning on good weather
Informal to think; suppose

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reckoner noun

See reckon in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb reck·oned, reck·on·ing, reck·ons

verb, transitive

To count or compute: reckon the cost. See Synonyms at calculate.
To consider as being; regard as. See Synonyms at consider.
Informal To think or assume.

verb, intransitive

To make a calculation; figure.
To rely with confident expectancy. See Synonyms at rely.
Informal To think or assume.

Phrasal Verbs: reckon with To take into account or deal with: a man to be reckoned with. reckon without To fail to consider or deal with; ignore.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English reknen

Origin: , from Old English gerecenian, to recount, arrange; see reg- in Indo-European roots

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