reckoning

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of reckonpresent participle and gerund of reckon

noun

1. 1

   The action of calculating or estimating something.

   By that reckoning, it would take six weeks to go five miles.

   So saying, he called for a reckoning for the wine, and throwing down the price of the additional bottle which he had himself introduced, rose as if to take leave of us.

   When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.

2. 2

   An opinion or judgement.

   day of reckoning

3. 3

   A summing up or appraisal.

   My mother's father was a small-town school teacher, an occupation with somewhat more status (teachers are petit bourgeois by the standard reckoning) which nevertheless provided little more income than on my father's side.

   The research presented in this paper is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reckoning of an expanding set of portmanteau terms based on the word English.

4. 4

   The settlement of accounts, as between parties.

5. 5

   The working out of consequences or retribution for one's actions.

6. 6

   archaicThe bill (UK) or check (US), especially at an inn or tavern.

7. 7

   archaicRank or status.

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