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Italian
Etymology
Literally, “to put in account/calculation”.
Verb
méttere in conto (first-person singular present métto in conto, first-person singular past historic mìsi in conto, past participle mésso in conto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive, idiomatic) to take into account
- Synonyms: tenere presente, fare il punto
2020, Barack Obama, chapter 9, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:Quello che non avevo messo in conto era lo scoppio di una grave crisi finanziaria.- What I hadn't counted on was a major financial crisis.
- (literally, “What I did not take into account was the outbreak of a grave financial crisis.”)