reckon with

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reckon with (third-person singular simple present reckons with, present participle reckoning with, simple past and past participle reckoned with)

  1. To settle accounts or claims with.
  2. To deal with.
    We'll reckon with him after the deed is done.
    • 2023 February 14, Holly Yan, “5 years after the Parkland school massacre claimed 17 lives, here’s what has changed (and what hasn’t)”, in CNN‎[1]:
      As the country reckons with how to prevent more children from being killed at school, the legacies of the Parkland victims live on.
  3. To take into account.
    I didn't reckon with his stubbornness.
    • 1918, The Economist, volume 86, page 778:
      Swiss manufacturers reckon with the possibility of a contractless state with Germany. The Swiss public opinion is afraid that such a contractless state will lead to intolerable interferences of German authorities with Swiss economic life.
    • 1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter 1, in Have His Carcase (fiction):
      She had not realised how butcherly the severed vessels would look, and she had not reckoned with the horrid halitus of blood, which steamed to her nostrils under the blazing sun.

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