accurate account
collocation in Englishmeaningsofaccurateandaccount
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accurate
adjective
uk/ˈæk.jə.rət/us/ˈæk.jɚ.ət/
correct, exact, and without ...
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account
noun
uk/əˈkaʊnt/us/əˈkaʊnt/
an arrangement with a bank to keep your money there and to allow you to take it out when you ...
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(Definition ofaccurateandaccountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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As it stands, the study offers a descriptive butaccurateaccount.
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In response, the sceptic may well be giving anaccurateaccount.
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For example, in chapter 6 the reader finds a veryaccurateaccountof syllable deletion.
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This approach, obviously, gives a moreaccurateaccountfor taxonomic diversity.
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It relies on anaccurateaccountof the event either from the patient or an eyewitness.
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It was anaccurateaccount.
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The result were household registers that, as commonly acknowledged, failed to provide anaccurateaccountof the population.
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However, this is an area of considerable debate and is a small quibble in an otherwise clear andaccurateaccount.
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I gave a perfectlyaccurateaccount.
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That is not quite anaccurateaccount.
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It is an absolutelyaccurateaccount.
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Why has noaccurateaccountof free passages been kept?
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I think that that is anaccurateaccount.
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That would have been a more honest andaccurateaccount.
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That is a perfectlyaccurateaccountof the matter.
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It can enable the dictionary maker to give anaccurateaccountof grammatical behaviour at the level of individual senses of a word.
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The generalised perception that caudillos are competing, greedy generals acting in a political vacuum is dismantled and replaced by a historically moreaccurateaccount.
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She passes over the interactional and transactional explanations which might give a fuller and moreaccurateaccountof a series of events culminating in a legal intervention.
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I do not think that he gave anaccurateaccountof it.
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I wish to take a minute or two to place anaccurateaccounton the record.
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He gave us a veryaccurateaccountof the plans which were there put forward.
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I think that is a more or lessaccurateaccountof what happened.
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I do not think that was a particularlyaccurateaccountof what happened.
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I am given to understand that this is not quite anaccurateaccountof what occurred.
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