reckoning
reckoning
Definition
reck·on·ing (-iŋ)
noun
- the act of one who reckons; count or computation
- a measuring of possibilities for the future; calculated guess
- a bill; account
- the settlement of an account
- the settlement of rewards or penalties for any action day of reckoning
- Naut., Rare dead reckoning
reckoning
Synonyms
reckoning
n.
An estimate
computation, calculation, count, tally; see calculation 1, estimate 1.Charge
account, bill, cost, debt; see bill 1, charge 1, statement 3.A settling of accounts
settlement, adjustment, judgment, retribution; see adjustment 2, judgment 2, 4.
reckoning
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- time: Handley's piece on the reckoning of time brings out the genuinely anomalous incidence of consular dating within the territories of the Burgundian kingdom.
Converse of object
- come: Now, with Bosnia's guns at least temporarily silenced, comes the bitter reckoning.
- make: Other men make no reckoning of it at all.
- pay: Pay The Reckoning will be at the front of the queue to find out!
- enter: Last year's winner Step Quick and grand campaigner General Claremont enter the reckoning.
- require: From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.
- use: Using some Dutch reckoning, he asserted that the peasants would use his country's namesake defense within two days and give up.
Adjective modifier
- dead: On 14 December, by ' dead reckoning ' , they were at the South Pole.
- final: His system went behind the final reckoning to books of prime entry.
- historical: As a result, the historical reckoning and dating system was inaccurate.
- own: By his own reckoning, Harris ' early ministry set the standard for later years.
- great: In this great reckoning there are only two verdicts: eternal life or eternal death.
- current: By the Government's current reckoning at 1 percent above base they would pay £ 60 million in back payments.
Modifies a noun
- counter: A collection of jettons or reckoning counters is also held.
- approach: But a day of reckoning approaches, Beetle mine.
- navigation: Obviously brilliant dead reckoning navigation helped considerably by the coming of dawn!
Noun used with modifier
- first-team: He returned to the club at the turn of the year, but never forced his way back into the first-team reckoning.
- time: The half day is subtracted so that the day starts at midnight in conformance with civil time reckoning.
- title: And will the English racers take enough points off each other to allow Farrell to feature in the title reckoning despite his partial program?
reckoning Quotes
Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you much at your own reckoning.
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