1888 Jacobi’s Printers' Vocabulary / A / Account line. [p. 2]
Compositors working in companionships usually charge something “on account”—a vague item which it supposed to cover work in hand but not finished.
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Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.