The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reckon \Reck"on\, v. i.
To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
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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,
to settle accounts or claims with; -- used literally or figuratively.
to include as a factor in one's plans or calculations; to anticipate.
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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.
Usage examples of "to reckon with".
Even Romans had to reckon with defeat, but to learn that their leader had lost his courage.
As far as a Negro could be, Lucullus was a man to reckon with in Covington.
If the war ended tomorrow, he would still be a person to reckon with.
And if folks around here looked cross-eyed at him on account of him not being all White, they'd have to reckon with Margaret Guester, they would, and it'd be a fearsome day for them, they'd have no terror at the thought of hell, not after what she'd put them through.
I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon, and if any of those Black Rulers try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with, I said.
If the Dominion utterly conquers the quadrant, a mighty and consolidated Cardassia will be a power to reckon with.