reckoning

reckoning
[[t]re̱kənɪŋ[/t]]
reckonings
1) N-VAR: usu poss N Someone's reckoning is a calculation they make about something, especially a calculation that is not very exact.

By my reckoning we were seven or eight kilometres from Borj Mechaab.

2) N-COUNT: usu sing If you say that you will have a reckoning with someone, you mean that you will face them at some time in the future and punish them for something they have done.
See also day of reckoning

She knew their truce would not last. There would be a reckoning. There would be another fight.


English dictionary. 2008.

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