| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | reck·on |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  r k  n |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: reck·oned, reck·on·ing, reck·ons
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To count or compute: reckon the cost. See synonyms at calculate. 2. To consider as being; regard as. See synonyms at consider. 3. Informal To think or assume. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To make a calculation; figure. 2. To rely with confident expectancy. See synonyms at rely. 3. Informal To think or assume. | | PHRASAL VERBS: | reckon with To take into account or deal with: a man to be reckoned with. reckon without To fail to consider or deal with; ignore. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English reknen, from Old English gerecenian, to recount, arrange. See reg- in Appendix I.
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