account vs representation

account

noun
  • A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done. 

  • A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake. 

  • Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system. 

  • A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. 

  • An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment. 

  • A bank account. 

  • Profit; advantage. 

  • A record of events; a relation or narrative. 

  • Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement. 

verb
  • To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc. 

  • To consider that. 

  • To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for. 

  • To estimate, consider (something to be as described). 

  • To establish the location for someone. 

  • To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for). 

  • To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain. 

representation

noun
  • A statement; a presentation of opinion or position, or an utterance made to influence the opinions or actions of others 

  • The act of representing. 

  • An object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces; (more formally) a homomorphism from a group on a vector space to the general linear group (group of all bijective linear transformations) on the space. 

  • The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court. 

  • A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality. 

  • That which represents something else. 

  • The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government. 

  • A theatrical performance. 

  • An act of representing, i.e. presenting again. 

How often have the words account and representation occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )