WRITTEN ACCOUNT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does written account mean? 

• WRITTEN ACCOUNT (noun)
  The noun WRITTEN ACCOUNT has 1 sense:

1. a written document preserving knowledge of facts or events

  Familiarity information: WRITTEN ACCOUNT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRITTEN ACCOUNT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A written document preserving knowledge of facts or events

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

written account; written record

Hypernyms ("written account" is a kind of...):

record (anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "written account"):

paper trail (the written evidence of someone's activities)

worksheet (a piece of paper recording work planned or done on a project)

interlingual rendition; rendering; translation; version (a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language)

statute book (a record of the whole body of legislation in a given jurisdiction)

minute book (a book in which minutes have been written)

minutes; proceedings; transactions (a written account of what transpired at a meeting)

register; registry (an official written record of names or events or transactions)

copy; transcript (a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record))

time sheet (a record of the hours worked by employees)

timecard (a card recording an employee's starting and quitting times each work day)

blotter; charge sheet; day book; police blotter; rap sheet (the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station)

note (a brief written record)

log (a written record of messages sent or received)

log (a written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane))

entry (an item inserted in a written record)

dossier (a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person's record))

chronology (a record of events in the order of their occurrence)

casebook (a book in which detailed written records of a case are kept and which are a source of information for subsequent work)

Instance hyponyms:

Domesday Book; Doomsday Book (record of a British census and land survey in 1085-1086 ordered by William the Conqueror)

 Context examples 

A chronological written account of a patient's examination and treatment that includes the patient's medical history and complaints, the physician's physical findings, the results of diagnostic tests and procedures, and medications and therapeutic procedures.

(Medical Record, NCI Thesaurus)