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    reckoning
    [ noun ]
    1. problem solving that involves numbers or quantities

    2. <noun.cognition>
    3. a bill for an amount due

    4. <noun.communication>
    5. the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order

    6. <noun.act>
      the counting continued for several hours


    Reckon \Reck"on\ (r[e^]k"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reckoned}
    (r[e^]k"'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Reckoning}.] [OE. rekenen, AS.
    gerecenian to explain; akin to D. rekenen to reckon, G.
    rechnen, OHG. rehhan[=o]n (cf. Goth. rahnjan), and to E.
    reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being,
    to bring together, count together. See {Reck}, v. t.]
    1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to
    calculate.

    The priest shall reckon to him the money according
    to the years that remain. --Lev. xxvii.
    18.

    I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the
    outside of the church. --Addison.

    2. To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by
    rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to
    esteem; to repute.

    He was reckoned among the transgressors. --Luke
    xxii. 37.

    For him I reckon not in high estate. --Milton.

    3. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a
    certain quality or value.

    Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
    --Rom. iv. 9.

    Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for
    a crime. --Hawthorne.

    4. To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of
    chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an
    objective clause; as, I reckon he won't try that again.
    [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]

    Syn: To number; enumerate; compute; calculate; estimate;
    value; esteem; account; repute. See {Calculate},
    {Guess}.


    Reckoning \Reck"on*ing\, n.
    1. The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the
    result of reckoning or counting; calculation.
    Specifically:
    (a) An account of time. --Sandys.
    (b) Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of
    obligations, liabilities, etc.

    Even reckoning makes lasting friends, and the
    way to make reckonings even is to make them
    often. --South.

    He quitted London, never to return till the day
    of a terrible and memorable reckoning had
    arrived. --Macaulay.

    2. The charge or account made by a host at an inn.

    A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a
    reckoning. --Addison.

    3. Esteem; account; estimation.

    You make no further reckoning of it [beauty] than of
    an outward fading benefit nature bestowed. --Sir P.
    Sidney.

    4. (Navigation)
    (a) The calculation of a ship's position, either from
    astronomical observations, or from the record of the
    courses steered and distances sailed as shown by
    compass and log, -- in the latter case called {dead
    reckoning} (see under {Dead}); -- also used for dead
    reckoning in contradistinction to {observation}.
    (b) The position of a ship as determined by calculation.

    {To be out of her reckoning}, to be at a distance from the
    place indicated by the reckoning; -- said of a ship.

    {day of reckoning} the day or time when one must pay one's
    debts, fulfill one's obligations, or be punished for one's
    transgressions.
    [1913 Webster +PJC]

    1. But such follies usually bring a day of reckoning.
    2. With officials admitting that a only a third of these state companies are profitable, the day of reckoning is dawning.
    3. The EC originally considered abolishing duty-free shopping for internal travel at the same time, but duty-free companies had the day of reckoning pushed back to 1999.
    4. And, Ms. Mills said, the "reasonably steady" markets Monday allowed managers to postpone the day of reckoning until yesterday, when they sold dollar-denominated holdings in droves at the first sign of weakness in the greenback.
    5. By one reckoning, the states of New York and Connecticut dropped into recession in December, joining 27 other states that earlier had descended to that level.
    6. Now that people are more prepared, of necessity, to play the waiting game, the atmosphere is coolly competitive rather than frenetic. Real strength of mind comes in the reckoning with yourself over what you buy.
    7. By my reckoning, that is 24,000, which works out to roughly 1% of the two million women who have had implants.
    8. The administration also sharply criticized S&L regulators for "postponing the day of reckoning" in their rescues of failed institutions.
    9. "They will get the laws they want." However, the true reckoning will come after the market legislation goes into effect.
    10. "Its day of reckoning has just been delayed," Mr. Linford warns.
    11. By some reckoning, the great lumbering African elephant, for many an unmatchable symbol of the wild, will survive mainly in zoos by the turn of the century.
    12. After the rewards reaped by investors in emerging markets in 1993 has come the reckoning in 1994.
    13. Mr Jontz disagrees, reckoning there are now more Republicans than Democrats on the fence.
    14. By Mr. Leonard's reckoning, American business each year adds one worker to every eight on the payroll at the same time as one-ninth of workers leave jobs.
    15. "The day of reckoning will be even more difficult if candidates are elected without a mandate or a program," says Mr. Babbitt, the former Arizona governor.
    16. By that reckoning, net farm income rose to $32.4 billion in 1985, $38 billion in 1986 and $47.1 billion in 1987.
    17. But Milken's legal rite of reckoning in a Manhattan federal courtroom on Monday was postponed for reasons that could be either ominous or fortunate for the 44-year-old prince of junk-bond financing.
    18. At the end of the day there was a dispute over the reckoning.
    19. By his reckoning, the interest rate on one-year Treasury bills averaged 8.20 percent in the first half of 1990, compared with an average of 8.33 percent from 1983 through 1989.
    20. By Hirsch's reckoning, the 23 New York Stock Exchange issues at new lows on Dec. 15 sported an average gain of 13.2 percent two months later, outstripping a 6.8 percent rise for the NYSE's composite index over the same period.
    21. By Democratic reckoning, considerably more money than Bush proposes to spend.
    22. By the budget office's reckoning, Japan owes $1.3 billion of its $10.7 billion pledge, some of which reflects a dispute over which country will absorb the cost of variations in the exchange rate.
    23. But by implementing production guidelines that distribute the "suffering" among all Japanese chip makers, the ministry has staved off the day of reckoning, said this official.
    24. "The third quarter is the quarter of reckoning," he said.
    25. Deficiency payments should total about $7.4 billion in fiscal 1990 and about $3 billion of that will be payable in advance, by Agriculture Committee reckoning.
    26. Between 1970 and 1987, the percentage of U.S. nonagricultural workers who were members of unions fell from 31% to 17%, a sharp drop by any reckoning.
    27. The disclosure of President Kurt Waldheim's World War II service in the German army has coincided with a historical reckoning that forced many Austrians to confront the Nazi past they have tried for decades to forget.
    28. "The day of reckoning has arrived," said Rep. Leon Panetta, D-Calif., chairman of the House Budget Committee.
    29. Despite the company's optimism, at least one analyst warned that the refinancing merely postpones the day of reckoning for Harcourt's costly attempt to stay independent.
    30. The revenue raisers would bring in an estimated $9.2 billion over five years, by the Republicans' reckoning.
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