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reckon

rec·kon

UK/ˈɹɛkən/ US/ˈrɛkʌn/ common informal

verb

1.

expect, believe, or suppose

  • “I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel”
  • “I thought to find her in a bad state”
  • “he didn”
  • “;”
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2.
3.

deem to be

  • “She views this quite differently from me”
  • “I consider her to be shallow”
  • “I don”
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4.
5.

have faith or confidence in

  • “you can count on me to help you any time”
  • “Look to your friends for support”
  • “You can bet on that!”
  • “Depend on your family in times of crisis”
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6.

take account of

  • “You have to reckon with our opponents”
  • “Count on the monsoon”
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Origin

From Middle English rekenen, from Old English recenian (“to pay; arrange, dispose, reckon”) and ġerecenian (“to explain, recount, relate”); both from Proto-West Germanic *rekanōn (“to count, explain”), from Proto-West Germanic *rekan (“swift, ready, prompt”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to make straight or right”). Cognate with Scots rekkin (“to enumerate, mention, narrate, rehearse, count, calculate, compute”), Saterland Frisian reekenje (“to calculate, figure, reckon”), West Frisian rekkenje (“to account, tally, calculate, figure”), Dutch rekenen (“to count, calculate, reckon, charge”), German Low German reken (“to reckon”), German rechnen (“to count, reckon, calculate”), Danish regne (“to calculate”), Swedish räkna (“to count, calculate, reckon”), Norwegian Nynorsk rekna (“to calculate”), Icelandic reikna (“to calculate”), Latin rectus (“straight, right”). See also reck, reach.

Phrases

  • chinny reckon
  • dead reckon
  • reckon for
  • reckon on
  • reckon out
  • reckon up
  • reckon upon
  • reckon with

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