keep accounts—
1. make records of money paid out and received:
- After two years passed in keeping accounts in Calcutta, Hastings went up the country.
2. is used of money kept at a bank:
- Like every other nonbank institution, savings and loan associations must keep accounts with commercial banks.
keep an account—
1. = keep accounts 2:
- A current account is an account kept by a customer at a bank to meet his current expenses.
2. count and record the number:
- A game book is one wherein the sportsman may keep an account of all the game he kills.
3. make written notes:
- When you go on a vacation, carry a notebook and keep an account of what you do every day.