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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reckon
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dead reckoning
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
analyst
▪ Most analysts reckon their profits fell by 10-20% last year.
▪ Top analysts reckon that the boom could continue with investors switching their cash from the banks and building societies.
▪ The analyst reckons they have about 4 percent of the market.
bank
▪ The creditor banks, reckons the study, did less well.
▪ If Sunil was on the north bank, I reckon it must have been Declan.
company
▪ The two companies reckon this combination will appeal to developers of process control systems using real-time monitoring.
▪ But now some seed companies reckon wheat hybrids are really on the horizon.
▪ There are several advantages to being a private company, Graham reckons.
day
▪ The smoke and sound told her the day of reckoning had begun.
▪ Their day of reckoning had come.
▪ But on the day of reckoning a divided Kurdistan could be a fatally weakened one.
▪ The day of reckoning has come.
▪ If they do that they will merely be putting off the day of reckoning.
▪ Yet year by year, the day of reckoning grows closer, and nothing is being done.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
in/into/out of the reckoning
the day of reckoning
▪ But on the day of reckoning a divided Kurdistan could be a fatally weakened one.
▪ If they do that they will merely be putting off the day of reckoning.
▪ The idea of training hard for the jump was soon shelved and the day of reckoning drew nearer.
▪ The smoke and sound told her the day of reckoning had begun.
▪ When the day of reckoning finally arrived, the truth was found to lie well in the middle ground between these extremes.
▪ Yet year by year, the day of reckoning grows closer, and nothing is being done.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ How long do you reckon it will take?
▪ The TV audience in China is reckoned at 800 million.
▪ They reckon the French team's better than ours.
▪ This hotel is reckoned to be one of the best in the country.
▪ What do you reckon - would this make a good present for Donald's birthday?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Brenda reckons having her own bike has a few benefits.
▪ By now he was a quick and decisive player, a force to be reckoned with at center half.
▪ I reckon I'd do it for a thousand pounds.
▪ If it's being run for the short-term, they reckon, that could account for a lot of its recent pragmatism.
▪ None of us had reckoned on open-heart surgery.
▪ Sun insiders reckon the company will price-list Motif almost immediately.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reckon

Reckon \Reck"on\ (r[e^]k"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reckoned (r[e^]k"'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Reckoning.] [OE. rekenen, AS. gerecenian to explain; akin to D. rekenen to reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rehhan[=o]n (cf. Goth. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. See Reck, v. t.]

  1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

    The priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain.
    --Lev. xxvii. 18.

    I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church.
    --Addison.

  2. 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.

    He was reckoned among the transgressors.
    --Luke xxii. 37.

    For him I reckon not in high estate.
    --Milton.

  3. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.

    Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
    --Rom. iv. 9.

    Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime.
    --Hawthorne.

  4. To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause; as, I reckon he won't try that again.

    Syn: To number; enumerate; compute; calculate; estimate; value; esteem; account; repute. See Calculate, Guess.

Reckon

Reckon \Reck"on\, v. i.

  1. To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
    --Shak.

  2. To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty. ``Parfay,'' sayst thou, ``sometime he reckon shall.'' --Chaucer. To reckon for, to answer for; to pay the account for. ``If they fail in their bounden duty, they shall reckon for it one day.'' --Bp. Sanderson. To reckon on To reckon upon, to count or depend on; to include as a factor within one's considerations. To reckon with,

    1. to settle accounts or claims with; -- used literally or figuratively.

    2. to include as a factor in one's plans or calculations; to anticipate.

    3. to deal with; to handle; as, I have to reckon with raising three children as well as doing my job.

      After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.
      --Matt. xxv. 19.

      To reckon without one's host, to ignore in a calculation or arrangement the person whose assent is essential; hence, to reckon erroneously.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reckon

c.1200, recenen, from Old English gerecenian "to explain, relate, recount," from Proto-Germanic *(ga)rekenojan (cognates: Old Frisian rekenia, Middle Dutch and Dutch rekenen, Old High German rehhanon, German rechnen, Gothic rahnjan "to count, reckon"), from Proto-Germanic *rakina- "ready, straightforward," from PIE *reg- "to move in a straight line," with derivatives meaning "direct in a straight line, rule" (see regal).\n

\nIntransitive sense "make a computation" is from c.1300. In I reckon, the sense is "hold an impression or opinion," and the expression, used parenthetically, dates from c.1600 and formerly was in literary use (Richardson, etc.), but came to be associated with U.S. Southern dialect and was regarded as provincial or vulgar. Related: Reckoned; reckoning.

Wiktionary
reckon

vb. 1 To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. 2 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. 3 To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value. 4 To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause; 5 (context intransitive English) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing. 6 To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

WordNet
reckon
  1. v. expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up" [syn: think, opine, suppose, imagine, guess]

  2. judge to be probable [syn: calculate, estimate, count on, figure, forecast]

  3. deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do" [syn: see, consider, view, regard]

  4. make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn: calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, figure]

  5. have faith or confidence in; "you can count on me to help you any time"; "Look to your friends for support"; "You can bet on that!"; "Depend on your family in times of crisis" [syn: count, bet, depend, look, calculate]

  6. take account of; "You have to reckon with our opponents"; "Count on the monsoon" [syn: count]

Wikipedia
Reckon (company)

Reckon is an Australian software company that provides desktop and cloud-based accounting software for accountants, bookkeepers, small to medium businesses, and personal users. The company has offices in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Reckon is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. Reckon has over 600,000 businesses using its software across Australia and New Zealand.

Reckon Limited was founded by Greg Wilkinson in 1987 and was its Chief Executive Officer until 2006. Funded initially with the $2,000 dollar credit limit on a friend’s credit card, Greg Wilkinson started selling software packages designed in the UK to the Australian market.

In 1993 Reckon commenced republishing and distributing Quicken software products under a licensing agreement with Intuit.

The release of the 2013 versions of their accounting software was accompanied by a name change following Intuit's use of the QuickBooks brand for its own cloud-based accounting system, now sold to Australian customers. The Australian versions of the Quicken personal finance products were renamed Reckon Accounts Personal in late 2012.

Usage examples of "reckon".

It did not help that she was a terrible flirt, reckoning herself the belle of the steading, and it did not help that Evrard was a homely man, albeit a wealthy one.

The root of the Wild Celery, Smallage, or Marsh Parsley, was reckoned, by the ancients, one of the five great aperient roots, and was employed in their diet drinks.

Turquoise were the most numerous, but other stones included rose quartz, red jasper, leopard jasper, amethyst, lapis lazuli, opal, bloodstone, tiger-eye, azurite, malachite, and more beyond reckoning.

He thanked me and begged me to keep my own counsel, and to reckon him henceforth amongst my truest friends.

This did not, however, include certain important sums of money, not reckoned in the estate and already tied up in sacks in the vaults of the Capitol, which had been set aside as particular bequests to confederate kings, to senators and knights, to his soldiers, and to the citizens of Rome.

As he stared at the broken bauble, the big, muscular man began to cry and moan of how the Holy See and its chosen captain, di Bolgia, had ruined him and Munster, driving loyal bonaghts and galloglaiches and even noble FitzGerald kinsmen away from their loving sovran, leaving him and Munster now defenseless except for craven, money-grubbing oversea mercenaries, with no true loyalty of bravery in them not reckoned in grams of gold and ounces of silver.

I hardly reckoned on it myself, but Burdock knew him better than I did.

The produce, I was told, was equal to fifty bushels to the acre, but the reckoning was in centals, and indeed decimal coinage and decimal weights and measures had been adopted so long ago that most people had forgotten our old standard.

I do not believe, Lady Coombs, that I have received a reckoning for the service.

The discovery of these books, however much appreciated in view of the paucity of correlative material, occasioned further difficulties when it was found that a method of reckoning time was used in them that had been quite unknown in the old Mayan kingdom.

I could not do, and I could only reckon on having the good luck to find a boat moored with cords.

I was in no anxiety on the score of present needs, as I could reckon on a monthly allowance of a hundred crowns, which my adopted father, the good and generous M.

The reckoning of religious faith is deterministic right in its essence.

The next day, the 16th of February, we left the basin which, between Rhodes and Alexandria, is reckoned about 1,500 fathoms in depth, and the Nautilus, passing some distance from Cerigo, quitted the Grecian Archipelago after having doubled Cape Matapan.

That is why the entire Jewish mass may actually be reckoned in the ranks of those who are with the Russian emancipatory movement.