keep account

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The program’s cost was not the main concern, since the workers would be saving their own money and employers were not being asked to make matching contributions, keep account records or invest the funds.

From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2016

More than 2,000 Belgians are employed by provincial governments and by Premier Joseph Ileo's central Congolese regime to run waterworks, power plants, to collect taxes and keep account books.

From Time Magazine Archive

Squires says the Internet has made alternative forms of exchange more viable, as databases can keep account of credits.

From Time Magazine Archive

To keep account of the changing of seasons, they knew when it was winter or summer by the trees, and their leaves and fruit.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

“I can’t always keep account of these little things,” he explained.

From The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas by Rogers, W. A. (William Allen)