Gerund of the verbreckon, fromreckon +‎-ing. CompareDutchrekening,GermanRechnung.

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ˈɹɛkənɪŋ/,/ˈɹɛkn̩ɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation:reck‧on‧ing

reckoning

1. presentparticiple andgerund ofreckon

reckoning (countable anduncountable,pluralreckonings)

1. The action ofcalculating orestimating something.

   By thatreckoning, it would take six weeks to go five miles.

   • 1817,Sir Walter Scott,Rob Roy:

     So saying, he called for areckoning for the wine, and throwing down the price of the additional bottle which he had himself introduced, rose as if to take leave of us.

   • 1907 August,Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, inThe Younger Set, New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company,→OCLC:

     When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost allreckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.

2. Anopinion orjudgement.

   day ofreckoning

3. A summing up orappraisal.
   • 1984 February 4, David Morris, “Different Origins: Joto Güero del West Side”, inGay Community News, volume11, number28, page15:

     My mother's father was a small-town school teacher, an occupation with somewhat more status (teachers are petit bourgeois by the standardreckoning) which nevertheless provided little more income than on my father's side.

   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, inEnglish World-Wide‎^[1], page18:

     The research presented in this paper is the most comprehensive and up-to-datereckoning of an expanding set of portmanteau terms based on the wordEnglish.

4. Thesettlement ofaccounts, as between parties.
5. The working out ofconsequences orretribution for one's actions.
6. (archaic) Thebill (UK) orcheck (US), especially at aninn ortavern.
7. (archaic)Rank orstatus.

• (action of calculating or estimating something):calculation,computation; see alsoThesaurus:calculation