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reckon with en · VERB

Meanings

1. To settle accounts or claims with.
   • After a long time, the lord of those seruants commeth, and reckoneth with them. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 25:19:
2. To deal with.
   • If she lets you down, she'll have me to reckon with
   • As the country reckons with how to prevent more children from being killed at school, the legacies of the Parkland victims live on. 2023 February 14, Holly Yan, “5 years after the Parkland school massacre claimed 17 lives, here’s what has changed (and what hasn’t)”, in CNN:
   • We'll reckon with him after the deed is done.
3. To take into account.
   • I didn't reckon with his stubbornness.
   • She had not realised how butcherly the severed vessels would look, and she had not reckoned with the horrid halitus of blood, which steamed to her nostrils under the blazing sun. 1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter 1, in Have His Carcase (fiction):
   • Swiss manufacturers reckon with the possibility of a contractless state with Germany. The Swiss public opinion is afraid that such a contractless state will lead to intolerable interferences of German authorities with Swiss economic life. 1918, The Economist, volume 86, page 778:

Forms

Deriveds

to reckon with · to be reckoned with

Translations (13)

ru рассчитываться (To settle accounts with or to settle claims with) · ca arreglar els comptes (To settle accounts with or to settle claims with) · et tegusõnafraas (To settle accounts with or to settle claims with) · ca tenir en compte (To take into account) · es ocuparse de (To deal with) · es arreglar las cuentas con (To settle accounts with or to settle claims with) · es tener en cuenta (To take into account) · ca ocupar-se de (To deal with) · es encargarse de (To deal with) · ca encarregar-se de (To deal with) · fr prendre en compte (To take into account) · sv räkna med (To take into account) · fr régler ses comptes avec (To settle accounts with or to settle claims with)