without
Multiple Entries:
without reckon
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
without/wɪˈðaʊt/
▶preposition
- 1 not accompanied by or having the use of.
- 2 in which the action mentioned does not happen.
- 3 archaic or literary outside.
- 1 without it being the case that.
- 2 unless.
– origin OE withūtan ‘on the outside’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
reckon/ˈrekən/
▶verb
- 1 calculate.
- 2 be of the opinion.
- 3 regard in a specified way.
■ (reckon someone/thing among) include someone or something in (a group).
■ (reckon on/to) informal have a specified view or opinion of.
- 4 (reckon on) rely on or be sure of.
■ expect.
- 5 (reckon with (or without)) take (or fail to take) into account.
- 6 (reckon with) archaic settle accounts with.
– phrases
a —— to be reckoned with (or to reckon with) a thing or person not to be ignored or underestimated.
a —— to be reckoned with (or to reckon with) a thing or person not to be ignored or underestimated.
– origin OE (orig. ‘give an account of items received’, hence the notion of ‘calculation’) (ge)recenian ‘recount, relate’, of W. Gmc origin.
'without' also found in these Oxford entries:
a-
- abandon
- abeyance
- abject
- abridge
- absent
- absenteeism
- absolute
- absolutely
- absolute value
- abyss
- a cappella
- accessory
- accident
- accord
- acentric
- acephalous
- achromatic
- acquiesce
- ad-lib
- ado
- adrift
- afford
- aggression
- agonic line
- ahimsa
- aimless
- air-kiss
- akrasia
- all
- allege
- alone
- alternative dispute resolution
- alyssum
- amaurosis
- Amazon
- amblyopia
- amentia
- amitotic
- amorphous
- anaemia
- anaesthesia
- anarchy
- anencephalic
- anergia
- aneroid
- anhedonia
- anhydrous
- anonymous
- anorexia

