{
  "id": "account.financial",
  "term": "account",
  "sense": "financial",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "account",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a list that shows change of matter for a thing over time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "list.ordered",
      "change.process",
      "matter.substance",
      "show.visual",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "The list orders each change of a thing’s matter by time, showing the whole sequence.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "temporal tracking of material changes",
      "visibility of cumulative transformation",
      "ordered recording of state differences"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Federal Reserve's balance sheet expanded from $900B in 2008 to over $8T by 2022 amid quantitative easing programs.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Mars Orbiter Mission's fuel reserve log tracked propellant levels from launch to Mars insertion in 2014.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Bitcoin's blockchain records every transaction since block 0, showing balance changes for each public address.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "bank.financial",
    "credit.financial",
    "finance.economic",
    "overdue.temporal"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "account",
    "accounted",
    "accounting",
    "accounts"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Definition was factually incomplete—it leaned on 'matter', 'show', and 'time' but did not include them in components. Added missing constitutive concepts to align record with definition's actual depen"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-account.financial"
}