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Reckoning   /rˈɛkənɪŋ/  /rˈɛknɪŋ/   Listen
Reckoning

noun
1.
Problem solving that involves numbers or quantities.  Synonyms: calculation, computation, figuring.
2.
A bill for an amount due.  Synonym: tally.
3.
The act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order.  Synonyms: count, counting, enumeration, numeration, tally.


Reckon

verb
(past & past part. reckoned; pres. part. reckoning)
1.
Expect, believe, or suppose.  Synonyms: guess, imagine, opine, suppose, think.  "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"
2.
Judge to be probable.  Synonyms: calculate, count on, estimate, figure, forecast.
3.
Deem to be.  Synonyms: consider, regard, see, view.  "I consider her to be shallow" , "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do"
4.
Make a mathematical calculation or computation.  Synonyms: calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, figure, work out.
5.
Have faith or confidence in.  Synonyms: bet, calculate, count, depend, look.  "Look to your friends for support" , "You can bet on that!" , "Depend on your family in times of crisis"
6.
Take account of.  Synonym: count.  "Count on the monsoon"



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"Reckoning" Quotes from Famous Books



... eighty-one degrees of north latitude." The exception to which I allude is in favour of Mr. Scoresby, who states his having, in the year 1806, reached the latitude of 81 deg. 12' 42" by actual observation, and 81 deg. 30' by dead reckoning. I therefore consider the latter parallel as, in all probability, the highest which had ever been attained prior to the attempt recorded in the ...
— Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the • Sir William Edward Parry
... drawing to a close—that is, it was in the period when those who really loved the charming promenade which is so loved of the sea began to enjoy themselves, and those who indulge in the pleasures of hope, based upon a comfortable matrimonial establishment, are reckoning up the results ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... in them. She saw at once that he had been thinking about it before by himself. She knew that whatever he might say to her, he would not say all he thought. And she knew that her last hope had failed her. This was not what she had been reckoning on. ...
— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy
... with the world at large, and I have paid the reckoning. But why shouldn't my daughter look at this ...
— A Pair of Patient Lovers • William Dean Howells
... this system the planter was saved the heavy expense of sugar kegs, and the cost of two agencies of five per cent. each, besides getting cash in Honolulu, whereas now his sugar is usually sold at three months in San Francisco, and he probably loses six months' interest, reckoning from the time his sugar leaves the plantation. This arrangement, several planters told me, was profitable to them; but it was discontinued—it was not to the advantage of the agents; its discontinuance was no doubt a blunder for ...
— Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands • Charles Nordhoff


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