reckon with something Definition

reckon
verb reckoned, reckoning

1. To calculate, compute or estimate it.

Example: reckon up the cost
Thesaurus: count, calculate, tally, compute, estimate, conjecture.
Form: reckon something up (often)
2. To think of someone or something as belonging to a particular group; to class or place.

Example: reckon him among my friends
Thesaurus: esteem, assess, appraise, regard, consider, judge, class, rate.
3. To consider or think of someone or something in a specified way; to judge.

Example: be reckoned a world authority
4. colloq
To think or suppose ....
Example: I reckon it's going to rain
Form: reckon that … (usually)
5. colloq
To esteem or admire someone or something highly.

Idiom: someone or something to be reckoned with

A person or thing of considerable importance or power that is not to be ignored.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon (ge)recenian to recount or explain.

Phrasal Verb: reckon on someone or something

To rely on or expect them or it.
Example: We reckoned on their support

Phrasal Verb: reckon with or without someone or something

To expect, or not expect trouble or difficulties from them or it.